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(g) Dental Defects - Treatment of Secondary and Technical Pupils
The work done for the Essex County Council is shown below and is not
included in Table IV at the end of the report.

(h) Orthopaedic and Postural Defects. Details of the work done
under the scheme are given in the section dealing with Defective
children.
(i) Heart Disease and Rheumatism, Dr. Sheldon contributes the
following report on the work of the Rheumatism Clinic during 1942:-
RHEUMATISM CLINIC 1942
Number of sessions 26
" " attendances 339
" new cases 92
" old cases 247
" discharged 163
" still under treatment 106
" of net. cases with rheumatic or cardiac defect 10
" referred to hospital as In-patient -
Out-patient -
" " for tonsils and adenoids operation 13
" " " dental treatment 14
" " to Physically Defective Centre 1
excluded from school 1
" " half time school 1
" " from games and exercises 6
" number to begin games and exercises. 6
" seen after scarlet fever 3
" seen after Diphtheria 5
" referred for convalescent home treatment 17
" sent away 13
" referred to Open Air School 1
(j) Tuberculosis - The number of school children examined during
the year was - boys 36 and girls 41 - of which 5 boys and 2 girls
were referred by the school medical staff. 29 of the cases were
sent by private practitioners, and 41 were examined as contacts.
At the end of the year the live register of notified cases
of school age was - Pulmonary 34, Non-pulmonary 23.
(k) Artificial Sunlight treatment - The number of children
treated was 20 making 213 attendances.
8. INFECTIOUS DI???
Notification in the 5-15 years age group during 1942 was as
follows (1941 cases shown in parenthisis) - scarlet fever 281
(62) diphtheria 4 (17), pneumonia 12 (16), erysipelas 4 (l), cerebro
spina 1 meningitis Nil (3) measles 418 (611), whooping cough 46 (171).
The last two named diseases were made notifiable in October 1939.
Two cases of scarlet fever were discovered by the medical staff*
10.