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Number of Other Routine Inspections
3
The following defects requiring treatment were found:—
Malnutrition 1
Enlarged Tonsils 1
Defective Vision 1
Dental Caries 5
The defects requiring observation, discovered in the children
examined in the routine way were:—
Defective Vision 2
Defective Speech 2
Functional Heart Disease 1
Bronchitis 2
In addition there were eighteen special inspections and
thirty-one re-inspections at the Health Centre of children attending
this school. Fourteen children were referred from the special
inspections for treatment at the Minor Ailment Clinic, with the
undermentioned defects:—
Ringworm of the Body 1
Impetigo 1
Other Diseases of the Skin 7
Minor Eye Defects 1
Miscellaneous 4
Two children were examined as new cases by the Oculist
at the Refraction Clinic whilst two other children attended for
re-examination. The total number of attendances made
amounted to six and glasses were prescribed in two instances.
Two old cases attended at the Orthopaedic Clinic for
examination by the Surgeon.
At the routine dental inspections twenty-eight children were
examined. Nineteen of these were found to require treatment.
Six of the children were actually treated, and made eleven
attendances at the Dental Clinic. Seven temporary teeth and
four permanent teeth were extracted. In six cases general
anaesthetics were administered. In addition four other dental
operations were performed on permanent teeth in children from
this school.
Frequent visits were paid to the school by the senior school
nurse in the course of her periodical examinations. As a rule,
the nurse visits the school about once a fortnight. In all,
fifteen such visits were paid and four hundred and thirty-five
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