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SCHOOL CLINIC.
The Clinic held at the Public Health Offices each morning
was continued during the year. A large number of minor ailments,
especially skin diseases, received treatment. This work
is much hampered by the inadequacy of the accommodation.
Records of all children attending the Clinic are kept, and either
certificates of exclusion or of fitness to attend school are given.
A number of children are referred to the Clinic from Medical
Inspection in the Schools, when more detailed examination is
required. Also a number attend as a result of the " following
up " by the School Nurse, of defects which have been discovered
at Medical Inspection.
The number of individual children seen at the Clinic during
1919 was 962.
Many of these children attended on numerous occasions. A
total of 2,028 exclusion certificates and 789 of fitness to attend
school were given.
The variety of ailments met with is seen from the following
list. One marked feature is that no less than 74 cases of scabies
or itch were treated. This is a high figure for such a district as
Ilford, and is probably due to infection from men returning from
military service. Many of the cases of scabies were protracted,
and four were so obstinate to treatment that they were admitted
to the Isolation Hospital, where they were cured in from 5 to 14
days.
Ailments of children attending the Inspection Clinic :—
Uncleanliness:—
Head 19
Body 6
Skin:—
Ringworm:—
Head 49
Body 24
Scabies 74
Impetigo 248
Other Diseases 100