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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.
The measure of the work undertaken and the result of the treatment
given may most conveniently be learned from a study of Tables IV and
V, pages 44-46. There, under five groups, are set out the activities of
various of the Clinics.
The Aural Clinic has a section of this report to itself. With regard
to the other Clinics they may be regarded as consolidated. The Aural
Clinic is of more recent development and the limits of its capabilities
have not yet been determined. For instance, there is a growing belief
that impairment of hearing results more from infectious diseases and
protracted common colds than from anything else. An arrangement has
been come to with Infectious Disease Hospitals receiving Tottenham
children, by which the School Medical Officer is advised of any patient
who, during his illness, has shown indication of ear trouble. Immediately
on discharge from hospital that patient is brought under the
supervision of your Committee's Ear Specialist and receives such attention
as may be necessary, until apprehension respecting hearing is allayed.
Similarly, with the co-operation of the Director of Education and the
teachers of one of your larger schools, children suffering from protracted
catarrh are submitted to the scrutiny of the Aurist.
Until the functions of the Ear Clinic have been definitely delineated
the Aurist will be requested to furnish a special report to be incorporated
in the School Medical Officer's annual statement for submission to the
Board of Education.
Children other than those found by the medical staff to be in need
of treatment may be sent for sufficient reason to School Clinics by the
head teachers of school departments. The latter know well what