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be overcome. We can safely say that no acute or urgent case
has ever failed to be put in the way of obtaining treatment
however adverse the home circumstances may have been.
One of our greatest difficulties used to be to obtain treatment
for children with defective sight. By the establishment
of our clinic this has been removed, and when a dental clinic
is working, as we hope it may be before very long, another
great difficulty, viz., to get treatment for decayed teeth will
also be tackled. The Invalid Children's Aid Society have
again rendered great service to many of our school children.
Over 40 children were recommended to the Society during
the year by your Medical Officer, and for many of them
Sanatorium or Convalescent Home treatment has been provided,
and for others, necessary instruments or other treatment.
Our cordial thanks are due for the invaluable help thus
rendered. Co-operation between the officers of the agencies
which have as their object the welfare of the children, viz.,
the Public Health Department, Poor Law Officers, District
Nurses, etc., and the School Medical Inspection Department
has been fostered and encouraged with benefit to the work
of all.
DISTURBANCE OF SCHOOL ARRANGEMENTS.
At the following Schools, Medical Inspection was carried on
under difficulties, owing to the lack of a proper hall in which
the parents could wait, or to the small, dark or otherwise
unsuitable rooms which had to be used for the inspections
Coleraine Park.
West Green.
Parkhurst Road (Boys).
Bruce Grove (Infants).