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The Masseuse has attended the Clinic for Orthopaedic treatment
and Remedial exercises every Monday, Wednesday and
Friday mornings, to carry out the treatment recommended. An
extra session was arranged on Wednesday afternoons commencing
April 8th. A total number of 152 visits were made by the Masseuse
to the Treatment Clinic during 1931.
There were a total number of 142 individual children of school
age treated during the period mentioned, and a total number of
3,497 attendances were made by these children.
Ten pairs of padded wooden splints (1 free of charge), also
instruments in 4 cases, were supplied to school children during the
year.
43 cases were discharged by the Orthopaedic Surgeon during
the year, 8 cases left the district and 13 cases left school or were
transferred to private or secondary schools.
All oases discharged are followed up and examined periodically
at school with a view to ascertaining the permanence of the cure.
As a result of the following up, 18 cases discharged from the
Orthopaedic Clinio were re-examined at school medical inspection,
13 of these being found to be permanently cured; of the
remaining 5 cases, 1 was advised to continue breathing exercises
at home; in 4 other cases the condition was considerably improved,
and the children are being kept under observation.
yd) Dental Department.— During the year the Dentists paid
199 visits to the schools for the purpose ol inspecting the teeth of
children.
Dental disease is still prevalent to much the same extent
among school children, as is shown by the fact that of 16,273
children inspected by the Dentists (including special cases), 9,020
(or 55.4 per cent.) were found to require treatment, compared with