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(h) Convalescent Home Treatment.—77 children were sent
away for convalescence during 1957. There were two children
remaining in convalescent homes and hospital schools on December
31st, 1957.
(i) Tuberculosis.—The number of school children examined
for the first time during the year was 104 boys and 106 girls, of
whom 23 boys and 16 girls were referred by the school medical
staff and 81 boys and 90 girls by private practitioners. 43 boys
and 36 girls were examined as contacts.
(j) Ultra Violet Light Treatment.—The total attendances for
treatment were 306.
9. PROTECTION OF SCHOOL CHILDREN AGAINST
TUBERCULOSIS
(a) Chest X-ray Examination of Teachers on Appointment.—
There has been no difficulty in insisting that all teachers on
appointment in Walthamstow be required to undergo a chest x-ray
examination. During 1957 the total of such examinations was 75.
Although the local Chest Clinic has been equipped with an
Odelca miniature x-ray apparatus, it has so far not proved possible
for staff to be referred as a routine.
Instead staff are referred to the Mobile Mass Radiography
Units and the static unit at Drayton Park, but the difficulties in
such an arrangement are obvious when compared with local
facilities.
All staff engaged in the School Meals Service are also subjected
to x-ray examination of the chest on appointment.
(b) Tuberculosis Vaccine Trials (Medical Research Council).
—Dr. T. M. Pollock, Physician in charge of the vaccine trials,
arranged for the annual follow-up in Walthamstow to be made in
June. Subsequently Dr. Pollock reported that of 202 young persons
invited for these fifth annual chest x-ray examinations, 117