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Vision 301 Nursery School Ab-
Dental Failures 904 sentees 41
Otorrhoea 173 Ringworm 7
Sore Throat 53 Various 76
The total for the year compares with 3,598 during 1931, and an
average of 1,108 for the five years 1926-30. The large increase is
due to several factors, e.g., the incidence of Non-notifiable Infectious
Diseases such as Whooping Cough and Mumps, the systematic
visiting of failures to attend for Dental Treatment and increased
visiting for purely "following up" purposes.
The school nurses attend at all medical inspections and staff the
various Clinics, e.g., Aural, Minor Ailment, Ophthalmic, Rheumatism,
Ringworm and Tonsillectomy Clinics, and also carry out
extensive cleanliness surveys as already detailed. Close co-operation
was maintained with the Almoners of various Metropolitan
General Hospitals and written reports were given when necessary.
8. MEDICAL TREATMENT.
The numbers of each code group requiring treatment is given in
Table II (b) at the end of the Report.
Minor Ailments.—The treatment of minor ailments is carried
out at the seven sessions of the School Clinics which are detailed
earlier in the Report, all of which are in charge of a Medical Officer.
Table IV, Group 1 (Board of Education), at the end of the Report,
shows the number of defects treated during the year.