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Children found on inspection or by special examination to be
suffering from defects are followed-up in school or at home by a school
medical officer, school nurse or attendance officer according to the nature
of the defect in each case. For instance, crippled children absent from
school are visited by a school doctor. Children suffering from general
ailments and infectious or contagious disorders are followed-up by the
school nurses, as are also children excluded from school by the medical
officer at any of the school clinics or by the authority of a hospital doctor.
Attendance officers follow-up cases whose absence from school does
not seem to be warranted on medical grounds.
The school nurses gave 116 baths to 57 children suffering from
scabies. They paid 5,630 home visits, made 696 attendances at clinics
and 445 school attendances for purposes of medical inspection.
Table IV, Group VI, describes in statistical form the further activities
of the school nurses.
MEDICAL TREATMENT.
Review of the methods employed or available for the treatment of defects
and a statement of the ascertained results of treatment—
SCHOOL CLINICS.
Minor Ailments Clinics.
Town Hall.—Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday mornings.
Bruce Castle.—Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings.
Eye Clinic, Bruce Castle.
Wednesday morning and afternoon. (Attendance by appointment
only.)
Aural Clinic, Bruce Castle.
Tuesday and Friday mornings. (Attendance by appointment only.)
Dental Clinics, Bruce Castle and The Chestnuts.
Open daily from Monday to Friday inclusive.