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Impetigo
This skin disease is very contagious. The lesion is first vesicular, later it
becomes dry with the formation of yellow "stuck on" crusts. Different forms are
described. It is contagious and auto-contagious and from the original site it can be
spread to any part. Treatment at the clinics is quickly curative, and the contagious
character of the lesion must receive attention. The number of cases treated at the
clinics this year was 78 being an increase of 12 on the previous year.
THE WORK OP THE MINOR AILMENT CLINICS

A medical officer is in attendance at Stratford School Clinic and Rosetta School
Clinic on Monday and Thursday mornings from 9 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. and at Balaam Street
School Clinic on Tuesday and Friday mornings from 9 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. One of the main
difficulties to be faced by the school medical officer is that in the school he frequently
has neither sufficient time nor suitable accommodation to examine some children as
thoroughly as he would wish. The minor ailment clinic, serving as it does a group of
schools, becomes the centre of school health work in the area and is used for the examination
of many different kinds of cases. These clinics have always been well used for the treatment
of minor ailments and, although attendances are still falling, a large number of children
still come to them referred mainly by head teachers.
The treatment of minor ailments at a school clinic is well established as one of the
most expeditious and comprehensive means of dealing with many troublesome conditions and of
preventing further impairment of health. The cases are seen by the medical officers on their
clinic sessions, and the bulk of the treatment is carried out by school nurses. Although many
of the conditions seen may be regarded as trivial their prompt treatment saves a good deal of
minor disability and, in a number of cases, prevents a simple lesion becoming a major one.
These clinics enable children with all kinds of minor ailments to be treated at a time and
place which reduces to a minimum the loss of school time. Continuity of treatment is ensured
through the close association of this work with the schools. The chief conditions treated
fall under three main headings:-
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