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During the year three cases were registered as partially
sighted, whilst two cases were recommended to be returned to
normal schooling",
Hornsey
Dr. Marian Lones, M,B. , D.P.H. D.O.M.,.S.. reports as follows
on the work of the Ophthalmic Clinic at Hornsey Town Hall:-
The total attendances at the clinic have been increased
during this year by some 3% and the waiting list for new cases was
nil at the end of the year.
Children's glasses are very vulnerable to damage and before
the National Health Service Act patients found this an expensive
item. The scheme for free repair of glasses is much appreciated,
238 repair forms were issued during the year.
A number of children from an infant school were referred
following illiterate E-card' testing, This test does not
require reading ability on the part of the child but does require
patient and kindly attention by the school nurse or else children
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may merely fall silent and be thought to have poor vision. In
actual fact almost all those cases referred were the true bill'
and a number of myopes were found.whose vision was say 6/12 but
which might have been 6/36 by the time of the intermediate medical
examination "u
School Meals Service
This service performs an invaluable health and educational
function, providing as it does one balanced meal a day to all who
use itp and in addition teaching the value of eating together in
clean and healthy surroundings. Under the supervisory eye of the
teacher many small children rapidly improve their table manners
and the faddiest of children usually loses his fads when away from
over-anxious parents.
Of course the daily feeding of so many thousands of children
in Tottenham and Hornsey places a formidable responsibility upon
the shoulders of the school meals staff. Every precaution must
be taken to prevent the spread of food-borne infection.
During March and April 19 55 a comprehensive survey was undertaken
by the medical staff of every school canteen in the two
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