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SCOPE OF THE SCHOOL MEDICAL SERVICE.
The School Medical Service participates in the followingactivities:—
(1) Medical Inspection in Elementary Schools (Routine and
Specials).
(2) "Following up" of children found defective.
(3) Cleanliness Surveys (Five Special Duty Nurses engaged).
(4) Treatment of Minor Ailments (four Clinics).
(5) Dental Inspection and Scheme of Treatment (three full-
time Dental Surgeons, three Clinics).
(6) Treatment of Visual Defects (two part-time Ophthalmic
Surgeons; three afternoons per week).
(7) Operative Treatment of Tonsils and Adenoids by
ment with two local Hospitals. Application for use of
third Hospital being considered by the Board.
(8) X-Ray Treatment of Ringworm (1) by local Radiologist;
(2) by arrangement with the London Hospital.
(9) Provision of meals to necessitous children.
(10) Provision of Surgical Instruments and Appliances to Crippled
Children.
(11) Convalescence of debilitated children.
(12) Juvenile Employment.
(13) Open Air Education. (1) Residential Open Air School for
80 Boys at Fyfield. (2) Day Open Air School, Crosby
Road, for 60 Girls. (3) Fifteen allocated beds for Girls
at the Ogilvie School of Recovery, Clacton-on-Sea. (4)
A Holiday Camp during the Summer Vacation at the
Seaside.
(14) Class lor Stammering Children.
(15) Medical Inspection of Special Defective Children at the two
Special Schools and two Deaf Centres.
(16) Medical Inspection of Scholarship Children at the two Higher
Elementary Schools.
(17) Medical Inspection of Pupils, Bursars, and Scholars at the
two Secondary Schools.
(18) Medical Inspection of Junior Technical and Art Classes at
the Municipal College.
(19) Medical Inspection of St. Angela's High School for Girls.
(20) Medical Inspection of Pupils at the West Ham High School
for Girls.
(21) Examination of Referred Pupils from Continuation Schools.
and Juvenile Unemployment Centres.
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