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Charges for treatment are as follows:—
Spectacles.—Free in necessitous cases.
In other cases there is no charge for the
examination of the eyes, but the parents
are required to pay the cost of the spectacles,
viz.—4/- per pair.
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 5 occasions for
the purpose of conducting Cleanliness Survey. At these inspections
there were examined 1,065 children, of whom 113 were found to
be unclean. Of the latter number 16 were excluded and the
remaining 97 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 7 days allowed them by by-law, a prosecution may be
ordered.
CLEANLINESS SURVEYS, 1924.
Total number of children examined 1065
„ ,, ,, „ given warning notices 97
„ ,, „ ,, excluded as verminous 16
Pound to have nits—
1. (Few) 47
2. (Bad) 37
3. (Very bad) 29