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patients' Department where children suffering from sub-acute
rheumatism, causing heart disease, can receive treatment.
It may be pointed out that heart disease is a greater factor
in causing the deaths of persons of all ages in Ilford than it is
in England and Wales generally.
The following improvements have been effected in the School
Medical Service during the past year:—
1. Operative Treatment of Tonsils and Adenoids at King
George Hospital.
This arrangement represents a distinct advance, as many
children can now be treated as in-patients, which was quite impossible
formerly, and further, the long distances which had to
be travelled by children for treatment has been obviated.
On the 18th February, 1929, an agreement was entered into
between the Education Authority and the Ilford Emergency Hospital
(now King George Hospital) with respect to operative treatment
of tonsils and adenoids in children attending elementary schools
in the Borough. The first Clinic at King George Hospital was held
on the 24th April, and further Clinics have been held at approximately
fortnightly intervals throughout the year. The agreement
provides for in-patient and out-patient treatment, where recommended
by the School Medical Officer. A detailed report as to the
number of cases treated during 1929 will be found on pages 26
and 27.
Arising out of representations made to the General Purposes
(Ambulance Matters) Sub-Committee on the 16th January, the
Council resolved :
"That the use of the Corporation's ambulances will be
permitted for the removal from the Hospital to their homes
after treatment of such children as are certified by the
Laryngologist to be unfit to proceed home in the ordinary
way, at a special fee of 2s. 6d. per child, being half the usual
scale fee for private removals within the Borough, this fee to
include one person in charge of each child."