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Holiday Home for Children.
29 medical examinations were of children preliminary to their
going to the King Edward VII. Memorial Home, Heme Bay.
Juvenile Employment.
37 special examinations were conducted in respect of children
whose medical inspection records were not sufficiently recent.
CRIPPLE CHILDREN.
By the Education Act, 1918, Section 20, the Local Education
Authority are required to ascertain what children in their area
are physically defective and to make provision for them.
A special enquiry on this subject was made last year and a
full report submitted.
There is no provision in the district for such children.
SCHOOL CLINICS.
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. Owing to the extension
of work in other directions, it was found impossible to continue
this and the present arrangements are that there are two clinic
days at the Council House and two at the Isleworth Public Hall
per week, when a full morning's work is done, but treatment
is carried out between 9 and 10 o'clock for minor ailments on five
days a week by the Nurses.
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 Routine Medical Inspections and
are perhaps marked for treatment or it may be merely
for observation.
2. Parents may apply to the teachers for authority to attend
the clinic.