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Children are treated under this scheme when the home conditions
are considered unsatisfactory. The average stay in Hospital was
5.5 days.

The cases done at the Isolation Hospital were virulent Diphtheria
carriers.
In addition, 92 other children received diastolisation treatment
at the School Clinics.
Tuberculosis.—Children suffering from actual and suspected
Tuberculosis are referred to Dr. Sorley, Tuberculosis Officer to the
Essex County Council, which Authority administers the Tuberculosis
Scheme in the Borough. The numbers of school children examined
during the year were 73 boys and 72 girls, of which 22 boys and 10
girls were referred by the School Medical Staff.
Of the total of 145 school children examined, 6 were notified as
suffering from glandular tuberculosis and 6 as suffering from
tuberculosis of the bones and joints. Dr. Sorley very kindly sent
full weekly reports in respect of each child seen. Recommendations
for treatment were carried out as far as possible, and included the
following:—Dental, Tonsils and Adenoids and Convalescent Home
treatment. Forty grants of free milk were also made.
At the end of the year, the live register of notified cases of school
age was as follows:—