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SCHOOL CLINICS.
Hounslow. Health Department.
Treatments by a nurse, 9 a.m. daily.
Medical Officer in attendance Tuesdays and Fridays at
10.30 a.m.
Isleworth. Public Hall.
Treatments by a nurse, 9 a.m. daily.
Medical Officer in attendance Mondays, 10.30 a.m.
Heston. Village Hall.
Treatments by a nurse, 9 a.m. daily.
Medical Officer in attendance, Thursdays 10.30 a.m.
As foreshadowed last year, it became necessary for a Medical
Officer to attend at the Heston Clinic, and this was begun in the
autumn. The new Clinic has relieved the congestion at the Hounslow
Clinic to a certain extent and has also proved valuable in
catering for the needs of the growing school population in Heston.
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, uncleanliness, or as
urgent dental cases.
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.—4/6 per pair.