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In connection with the above, 5,345 homes were visited, 753 attendances
were made at clinics, 1,342 school attendances were made for the
purpose of medical inspection and cleanliness surveys, and 147 baths
were given to 57 children suffering from scabies.
Table VI, page 49, outlines the work of the school nurses in schools.
MEDICAL TREATMENT.
Review of the methods of treatment employed, or available, for 'he
treatment of defects.
Malnutrition.—School dinners are provided for children of necessitous
parents and children recommended for school meals by the school
medical officers. .Milk is also provided in schools for children recommended
therefor by the school doctors. See in this connection the statement
of the Director of Education, page 24.
Uncleanliness.—At the Council's disinfesting station unclean
children may have their garments disinfested whilst they are bathed in
the slipper baths adjacent. Cleansing of the hair is assisted by the
school nurses in the case of those children who are not old enough to be
expected to look after themselves and whose parents show willingness to
co-operate in a thorough cleansing of their children. The nurses are
willing to demonstrate to mothers how cleansing should be effected, or
they will themselves cleanse children of mothers who are suffering from
some incapacitating condition.
Minor Ailments and Diseases of the Skin.—There are Minor Ailment
Clinics at the Town Hall and Bruce Castle, the sessions being as
follows :—
Town Hall.—Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday mornings.
Bruce Castle.—Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings.
At the Town Hall there is a spray bath for the treatment of scabies.
Ringworm is usually treated by X-Rays at the North Middlesex Hospital
and a payment is made by the Committee to the County Council in respect
of such treatment.