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some scheme whereby the necessary treatment could be
obtained and maintained, with a minimum loss of educational
training.
SCHOOL CLINICS.
In the early part of the year the clinic for the treatment of
Minor Ailments held at Alexandra School was discontinued, it
being found one such session per week was quite inadequate and
frequent misunderstandings arose as to which clinic a child was
to attend. Facilities having been extended at the Council House,
we were enabled to hold combined Inspection and Treatment
(Minor Ailment) Clinics on five mornings a week. The Clinics at
the Public Hall, Isleworth, are similar in scope and are as before
held on Monday and Thursday mornings.
School children come under the notice of the Medical Officers
in one of the following ways:—
1. They are discovered at Eoutine Medical Inspections and
are perhiips marked for treatment or it may be merely
for observation.
2. Parents may apply to the teachers for authority to attend
the Clinic.
3. The teachers may on their own initiative refer children
to the Clinic either because of illness or uncleanliness.
4. The School Attendance Officers or the Attendance SubCommittees
may refer children who have been absent
from school on account of alleged illness.
5. The Medical Officers or the Health Visitors may discover
cases casually while visiting the schools.
Charges for treatment are as follows:—
Spectacles Free in cases considered necessitous.
Ordinary cases, 4/- per pair.
When special frames ordered by parents,
full cost.