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SCOPE OF THE SCHOOL MEDICAL SERVICE.
The School Medical Service now comprises the following
activities:—
(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 (five full-
time Dental Surgeons, four Clinics).
(6) Treatment of Visual Defects (two part-time Ophthalmic
Surgeons; five sessions per week).
(7) Operative Treatment of Tonsils and Adenoids by
ment with three local Hospitals.
(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 for
Crippled Children.
(11) Orthopaedic Treatment. Remedial Clinic in-patient and
out-patient treatment at Orthopaedic Hospitals.
(12) Convalescent treatment for debilitated children.
(13) Juvenile Employment.
(14) 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)
Two Holiday Camps (Boys and Girls) during the Summer
Vacation at the Seaside.
(15) Artificial Sunlight Treatment at the Balaam Street Children's
Hospital.
(16) Class for Stammering Children.
(17) Medical Inspection of Special Defective Children at the two,
Special Schools and two Deaf Centres.
(18) Medical Inspection of Scholarship Children at the two Higher
Elementary Schools.
(19) Medical Inspection of Pupils, Bursars, and Scholars at the
two Secondary Schools.
(20) Medical Inspection of Junior Technical and Art Classes at
the Municipal College.
(21) Medical Inspection of St. Angela's High School for Girls.
(22) Medical Inspection of Pupils at the West Ham High School
for Girls.
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