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whole-time masseuse would be approximately £200 a year. There
would be entailed in addition, the initial cost of providing the
necessary apparatus; (2) The appointment of an Orthopaedic
Surgeon who could attend at the School Clinic at Valentines Mansion,
and whose salary would be 3 guineas per session of about 2
hours. The various Authorities vary in their employment of an
Orthopaedic Surgeon from once a week to once a month. I am of the
opinion that in the first place the services of an Orthopaedic Surgeon
attending once a fortnight would be sufficient. (3) Arrangements
with an Orthopaedic Hospital, such as the Royal National Orthopaedic
Hospital, to admit cases requiring operations, etc., from
Ilford at a net rate per child .''
The Committee had before it in December the question of the
establishment of an additional School Clinic in the eastern part of
the Borough at Becontree. The matter has been referred to the
Special Sub-Committee appointed to deal with the questions of the
Orthopaedic Scheme and the appointment of an additional School
Dentist.
The Open-Air School was completed during the year, and out
of 288 school children recommended from various sources for
Open-Air School treatment, I selected 119 children. 90 children
have been admitted to the school, aud there is a waiting list of
cases, which will be admitted as vacancies occur. The School
was formally opened on the 29th January, by His Worship the
Mayor, Alderman Gunary.
The benefits which weakly children in other districts have
derived from open-air school treatment will now be available for
Ilford children, and I have little doubt will produce as favourable
results in this district in improving the physique of the delicate,
of whom so many are to be found in our schools.
The following table shows a comparison of the incidence of
physical defects found at routine school medical inspection in
Ilford for the past three years with that in the country generally,
as arrived at by the Board of Education in 1927.