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MEDICAL TREATMENT.
Defects discovered at medical inspection are reported to the
parents, who may elect to obtain treatment either privately or
through a hospital, or may avail themselves of the facilities
afforded by the school clinics. Visual and dental defects, X-ray
treatment of Ringworm and the treatment of Minor Ailments are
now undertaken by the Education Authority, whilst the operative
treatment of Tonsils and Adenoids is by arrangement carried out
at the local hospitals.
MINOR AILMENTS.
Holiday Clinics.
During the year it was decided to open the School Clinics
during the holidays as it was urged that if the children required
treatment during the term, they equally required it during the
holidays and on Saturdays.
Summer Holidays.
The following report was made to the Committee as a result
of the opening during the summer holidays.
REPORT ON WORK AT THE MINOR AILMENTS TREATMENT
CLINICS, DURING SCHOOL HOLIDAYS.
" With reference to the Committee's decision that School
Clinics should be opened on Saturdays and during school holidays
for a time, with a view to ascertaining whether it would be an
advantage to do so permanently or not, I beg to report as follows.
The schools closed for the summer holidays on Thursday,
25th July, 1929, and arrangements were made for the three Minor
Ailments Treatments Clinics, to continue daily except Sundays
and Bank Holidays, at Hounslow, Isleworth, and Heston, from
9 a.m. to 9.30 a.m. or until the cases attending were treated.
1. Hounslow Clinic.
At the commencement of the holidays, 9 cases of sores were
remaining under treatment. 25 Clinics were held, and the total
attendances were 53. The lowest attendances was nil on two
Saturdays, and the highest four, on the first day. At two Clinics,
only one child attended. The average attendance was two. Seven
cases were discharged as cured. Two new cases attended for
treatment.