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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.
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 UNCLEANLINESS.
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.