Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Tottenham]
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I.C.A.A., with the necessary instruments, and in respect of both of these
kinds of assistance the Education Committee pay to the I.C.A.A. 75 per
cent, of their out-of-pocket expenses. The Association makes the necessary
arrangements with the parents for the payment of their (the parents)
quota, and collects it.
The School Medical Officers see cases going to Convalescent Homes
and approve the treatment advised, and the Senior Assistant School
Medical Officer examines the instruments supplied to cripple children
and ascertains whether they are so satisfactory as to enable the children
to attend school.
It is seldom that the aid of the National Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Children is invoked, but they render useful service when
requested.
The National Hospital for Diseases of the Heart, the Central London
Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital and the Prince of Wales's Hospital, have
arrangements with the Education Committee for the treatment of specific
types of disease. The Committee have also an agreement with the North
Middlesex Hospital Authorities for the hospital treatment of such
ailments as ringworm, tonsils and adenoids, and mastoid disease.
It may be stated generally that the Education Committee have such
complete arrangements for the treatment of the diseases of school children,
either at their own clinic or on their behalf at one, or other, of the
great London Hospitals, that there is no reason why any Tottenham child
should have his ailment unattended.
In 30 of these cases, the treatment has been continued in 1926.