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8.— MEDICAL TREATMENT.
(a). Minor Ailments.
The Minor Ailments Clinics continue to be an important and
highly successful feature of the School Medical Service for this
area, as one may judge from the fact that 2036 individual children
attended the Clinics during 1930, making between them over 8,000
attendances.
The Clinics are open at 9 a.m. every week-day for the treatment
of Minor Ailments at the following centres : —
Hounslow.—Clipstone House, 92 Bath Road.
Heston.—The Village Hall.
Isleworth.— The Public Hall.
A Medical Officer attends the Clinics on the following days : —
Hounslow.—Tuesdays and Fridays at 10.30 a.m.
Heston.—Thursdays, at 10.30 a.m.
Isleworth.—Mondays at 10.30 a.m.
In May, 1929, the Committee decided to keep the Clinics open
on Saturday mornings and during the school holidays, in order to
judge from the attendances the need for opening at such times.
A study of the Clinic Registers for 1930 reveals a considerable drop
in the attendances when schools are closed, emphasizing the fact
that but for the compulsion that goes with school attendance during
term time many of the cases of minor ailments would go untreated
and neglected.
The following are the average attendances at each of the three
Clinics : —
School holidays, 1930.
Hounslow. Heston. Isleworth.
3.5 2.16 2.56
Saturdays (during a period of 8 months, 1930).
Hounslow. Heston. Isleworth.
2.26 1.65 0.88
Cases are referred to the Clinics from the School Medical
Inspections, or are sent in by Head Teachers, Health Visitors or
School Attendance Officers. The Attendance Committee also refer
children who have been absent from school on account of alleged
illness.