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Visits.
Re Infectious Disease 2504
Re Clinic Absentees 155
Following up 659
Other Visits 195
7.—ARRANGEMENTS FOR TREATMENT.
(a). Malnutrition.
During the year the Committee formulated and adopted a scheme for the provision of milk
at school for undernourished children. Further reference to this will be found under " Provision
of Meals," page 25.
This scheme has not been running long enough to show any reliable results. Next year
however, we shall be in a position to judge the effect.
Cod Liver Oil and Malt is sold at cost price at the School Clinics for children recommended
by the School Medical Officer.
(b). Uncleanliness.
The Cleanliness Survey is a most important factor in maintaining cleanliness amongst school
children, and although it was not found possible during the year to attain the standard of one
cleanliness survey per term at each school, it has been possible to increase the number of examinations
to 9,855, compared with 8,724 in 1932, 6,774 in 1931, 4,211 in 1930, and 782 in 1929.
Number of visits to schools by Nurses 69
Total number of children examined 9855
„ „ „ „ given warning notices 636
„ „ „ „ excluded as verminous 40
1. (Few) 506
Found to have nits— 2. (Bad) 108
3. (Very Bad) 22
The nurse's visit is a "surprise" visit, and every child in school is examined privately.
Those children who are found to have nitty or verminous conditions are given a sealed envelope,
addressed to the parent, containing (1) instructions as to the best method of cleansing the head,
(2) the name and address of the Council's Home Help, who would cleanse the head in one sitting
for a fee of 1/-, and, (3) a warning that the child will be excluded from school if the head is not
properly cleansed.
Two clear days after the Survey, a Special Clinic is arranged for the re-examination of
these children. Those who have not been properly cleansed are excluded from school. If at the
expiration of seven days they are still unclean, the parents render themselves liable to prosecution
under the School Attendance Bye-Laws.
Mrs. Yates has done the work of cleansing heads since 1923, the Council supplying the
Sackers Combs and Shampoo. As a rule, parents are glad to avail themselves of her services,
so as to avoid having their children excluded from school. One hundred and one children were
cleansed by Mrs. Yates during 1933
During 1933 it was found necessary to take legal proceedings in 7 cases, with the following
results:—
Five cases Fined 5/- each.
Once case Fined 10/-
One case ined 10/- and ordered to pay costs.
(c). Minor Ailments and Diseases of the Skin.
The Minor Ailments Clinics have again proved to be a very active feature of the School
Medical Service, and here, as in other branches of our work, the results of an increasing school
population continue to be much in evidence.
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