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are few, and are not chargeable to the Local Education Authority.
During the year 1,225 operations for this condition were performed
under the Authority's Scheme and 110 privately or at other
Hospitals.
The value of these operations cannot be over-estimated, the
benefits resulting comprising various improvements both general
and special in the child's condition. Anaemia, deafness, poor
appetite, mental backwardness, debility, disturbed sleep, are all
benefited by this radical operation properly performed.
(c) TUBERCULOSIS.
The treatment of this condition is not provided for by the
Education Committee, but arrangements exist for transferring
such cases under the Tuberculosis Scheme of the Council. The
examining School Doctor refers the case by a special card to the
Tuberculosis Officer whenever Tuberculosis is, or is suspected to
be, present. By this means pre-tubercular cases also are kept
under observation, and can receive any requisite treatment. During
(he year 73 cases were so referred.
Both the School Doctors and the Tuberculosis Officer notify
The School Medical Officer of school cases coming under their
notice. During the year 81 cases were entered in the School
Diseases Register as exclusions. Only those cases liable to be
infectious are excluded from school.
Provision is made for Institutional treatment of those children
unfit for ordinary school life. The following Table gives the
number of children suffering from some form of Tuberculosis who
were being maintained at various Institutions at the end of the
year.
Tuberculous Children (out of school) having Institutional
Treatment.
Langdon Hills Children's Sanatorium 16
East Anglian Sanatorium (Lungs and Glands) 13
Seven Oaks Open Air School 1
Heritage Craft Schools, Chailey 2
Sir William Treloar's Home, Alton 2
Alexandra Hospital, Guildford 1
Alexandra Hospital, Swanley 1
Victoria Homes, Margate 1
Whipps Cross Hospital 11
St. Vincent's Cripple Home, Pinner 3
West Ham Union Homes, Margate 1
In addition to the above, there were 52 "Out of School" Cases,
calculated up to the end of December, 1927.
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