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Not only is the Rheumatism Supervisory Centre a means of supervision
of children in the Area with rheumatism, but it serves as a
consultant diagnostic centre for all cases of heart disease in school
children.
Application to the Minister of Health for a local order making
Acute Rheumatism compulsorily notifiable will be receiving consideration.
Ophthalmic Services and the Fitting of Spectacles.
In 1950 the North East Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board
assumed responsibility for the provision of specialists in the clinics
in this Area. In November 1950 Dr. Stafford Steen was appointed
Ophthalmologist for three sessions a week at the Lordship Lane
Clinic which is in the Board's area. Continuing along the lines
of this trend for the Regional Hospital Board to supply all specialist
services, Mrs Grover, a dispensing optician, was appointed by
the Hospital Management Committee to attend at the clinic for Dr.
Steen's three sessions. The dispensing optician, since July 2nd,
1951, has fitted the child with spectacles after the ophthalmologist
has prescribed. Prior to this, the child attended at any
optician of the parents' choice. The new system is advantageous
from the school health service point of view in that a complete
check can now be kept on the prescription and actual date of supply
of all spectacles ordered for school children The ophthalmic
service continues to be a service of prime importance in the school
health service for routine and special inspections, and the means
whereby many otherwise unnoticed defects are brought to light,
Orthoptic Treatment.
At present there is a vacancy for an orthoptist at the Lordship
Lane Clinic, and those children for whom the ophthalmic surgeon
has recommended orthoptic exercises are attending Moorfields Hospital
Out-patients Department, which is accessible from Tottenham by trolley-bus.
In Hornsey the local health authority's orthoptist (Miss Marmion)
was in attendance for four sessions weekly to carry out orthoptic
exercises for those children recommended treatment In
August 1951, Miss Marmion resigned and hence there is a vacancy for
an orthoptist at Hornsey also.