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Holiday Home for Children.
All children recommended for the King Edward VII Memorial
Home, Heme Bay, are medically examined before being sent away.
CRIPPLE CHILDREH.
By the Education Act, 1921, Section 55, the Local Education
Authority are required to ascertain what children in their area
are physically defective and to make provision for them. (See
Table III.).
A special enquiry on this subject was made in 1920 and a
full report submitted.
There is no provision in the district for such children.
SCHOOL CLINICS.
There are two clinic days at the Council House and two at
the Isleworth Public Hall per week, when a doctor is in
attendance, but treatment is carried out between 9 and 10 o'clock
for minor ailments on five days a week by the Nurses. Since the
Autumn when the work was re-arranged, the Medical Officer has
only attended once a week at each Clinic.
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.
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 Health Visitors may discover
cases casually while visiting the schools.
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.—5/6 per pair.