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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 Health Visitors may discover
cases casually while visiting the Schools.
Charges for treatment are as follows:—
Spectacles.—Free in necessitous cases.
Where the total family income does not
exceed 10/- per head, the spectacles are
provided by the Education Authority at a
reduced cost of 4/- per pair.
In all other cases the full cost has to be paid.
Ringworm.—Free in cases considered necessitous.
Other elementary school cases, 2/6.
Cases from other schools according to
circumstances of parents.
Dental.—6d. per attendance at Clinic.
Minor Ailments.—Free.
TREATMENT OF UNCLEANLINESS.
The Schools were visited by the Nurses on 15 occasions for
the purpose of conducting Cleanliness Survey. At these inspections
there were examined 1,880 children, of whom 180 were found to
be unclean. Of the latter number 18 were excluded and the
remainding 162 warned and kept under observation.
In this district neither the Education Authority nor the
Sanitary Authority possesses a cleansing station, consequently when
children are excluded from school by reason of nitty or verminous
conditions and their parents fail to cleanse them within the period
of 14 days allowed them by by-law, a prosecution may be
ordered.
During March of this year, this period of exclusion was
shortened to 7 days, by resolution of the Education Committee.
The arrangements for dealing with uncleanliness wore also modified,
whereby no child is now excluded immediately except when vermin
is found. In nitty cases a warning is sent to the parents, and two