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FOLLOWING-UP.
Review of the arrangements for the following-up of children suffering
from the various defects, including a summary of the work undertaken by
the school nurses:—
Children found at routine medical inspection to have defects are
re-inspected periodically by the assistant school medical officers.
The school nurses visit the homes of the children referred to hospitals,
school clinics and private practitioners in order to ascertain whether
treatment has been obtained, and to stimulate the parents, when necessary,
to carry out the medical officers' instructions.
Children excluded from school on the recommendation of the school
medical officers are likewise visited at their homes by the school nurses
when regular attendance at the appropriate clinics is interrupted.
Weekly returns from the schools are received by the School Medical
Officer, giving the names of children absent on account of illness. The
school nurses follow-up in the homes the children thus notified.
A list of children, who on medical grounds have not attended school
for lengthened periods, is furnished at the commencement of each calendar
year by the attendance officers, and all such cases are visited in their
homes by one of the medical officers.
The attendance officers also inform the medical department of
absences from school for apparently inadequate reasons, and suitable
measures are taken.
From hospitals, information is received of school children who are
out-patients or about to be discharged from hospital, together with
suggestions as to further treatment. The school medical officers and
nurses keep all such cases under observation in order that the instructions
received from the hospitals shall be carried out.
All children who wear surgical appliances, towards the cost of which
the Education Committee have contributed, are examined periodically
by one of the school medical officers.
Defective children attending the various special schools are medically
examined every six months.