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Following up and Treatment.
The same facilities are provided as in the other Schools. The
Nurse, after the Medical Inspection, follows up the cases at the
homes and School, and the Doctor re-inspects at the School.
Minor ailments are dealt with at the Rosetta Road School Clinic.

Mr. C. W. Truelove takes a very keen interest in the Medical
Inspection, and everything is done to encourage both tlTe attendance
of the parents and their continued interest in "following up"
and carrying out the advice given. Much keenness is shown in
the Physical Training, Folk Dancing, and Sports activities of the
School, every effort being made to enable the greatest possible
number of children to benefit by the latter.
Artificial Sunlight Treatment
The following is a report received from Dr. Eva Morton on
West Ham School Children treated at the Sunlight Clinic at the
Children's Hospital, Balaam Street, Plaistow, on behalf of the
Education Committee:
The results of treatment among the children of school age
has again been most encouraging. More than half the patients
are referred to the Clinic for Anaemia and for Debility, and possibly
it is among this group that most striking results are seen.
The haemoglobin percentage which is taken as a routine in all
cases on first starting the treatment, is found in practically every
case after twelve or more exposures to the carbon arc lamp to have
risen from its initial reading of 75 or 80 to a reading of 90 or 95.
The improvement both as regards physique and general alertness
in many of the children is most marked, and is frequently the
occasion of a spontaneous tribute from the mother.
A progressive gain in weight is usually observed, and where
this ie not the case, some other factor has usually been present,
such as faulty hygiene, insufficient rest, or the presence of enlarged
tonsils and adenoids. Sub-acute rheumatism is the diagnosis
in another large group of children referred to the Clinic for treatment,
and here too the results have usually been excellent. The
usual period of treatment is three months, but in some cases, including
children suffering from tuberculous glands in the neck or
from various chronic skin diseases, a more prolonged course is
given. Two or three cases of alopecia have done very well, as
also have a large number of children suffering from various
catarrhal conditions.
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