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Ringworm.—Free in cases considered necessitous.
Other elementary school cases, 2/6.
Cases from other schools according to
circumstances of parents.
Dental.—1/- for each child, which covers all necessary
treatment within the limits of the Committee's
scheme, for a period of one year, including the
administration of gas when considered necessary.
Minor Ailments.—Free.
TREATMENT OF UN CLEAN LI NESS.
The Schools were visited by the Nurses on 10 occasions for
the purpose of conducting Cleanliness Survey. At these inspections
there were examined 981 children, of whom 89 were found to
be unclean. Of the latter number 4 were excluded and the
remaining 85 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 by by-law, a prosecution may be
ordered.
CLEANLINESS SURVEYS, 1924.
Total number of children examined 981
,, ,, ,, ,, given warning notices 85
,, ,, ,, ,, excluded as verminous 4
1. (Few) 44
,, ,, ,, ,,
2. (Bad) 34
Found to have nits-
3. (Very Bad) 11
Mrs. Yates, the Home Help, still continues the work of
cleansing heads begun in 1923, the conditions remaining the
same, viz.:—the Council supplies the Sackers Combs and Shampoo
and Mrs. Yates charges 1 /- per case for cleansing.