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ness occurring amongst absentees, and these latter are visited at home
by the nurses.
Children who have had operations for tonsils and adenoids at
hospital, under the scheme approved by the Board of Education, are
visited by the school nurses until they are fit for return to school.
The School Nurses paid, during the year, 6,828 home visits.
MEDICAL TREATMENT.
(a) Minor Ailments.
Clinics are held pt Bruce Castle and Town Hall Centres as follows :—
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday forenoons—Town
Hall.
Monday, Wednesday and Friday forenoons—Bruce
Castle.
At the Town Hall there is a spray bath for the treatment of scabies
and other skin diseases. The temperature of the water delivered can
be regulated as required.
The Minor Ailments Clinic may quite properly be regarded as a
clearing house, where conditions requiring a short period of treatment
only are cared for, and from which children whose ailments require
special or prolonged treatment are passed to the appropriate department.
Of the other departments, it may be said they are fixed and
determined. Their efforts are expended upon particular types of
afflictions and the treatment is specialised and precise.
At the Minor Ailments Clinic, cuts, septic sores, impetigo, ringworm
of the body, blepharitis and such like are treated.
There is a group of ill-defined diseases also that receive attention
and for which it is necessary that more precise means of classification