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The diseases in the latter group are not notifiable under
the Infectious Disease (Notification) Acts, but the notifications
lead to investigations, by School Nurses, Sanitary Inspectors,
or, in special cases, by the Medical Officers, which often
disclose conditions inimical to the Public Health.
Arrangements:-The School Medical Officer examines
all the elder boys, and the Assistant School Medical Officer
all the girls and infants.
There are three School Nurses, viz:—Mrs. Wallace,
Miss Allen, and Miss Johns, who are occupied in attending
at the medical examination of the school children and at the
School Clinics, and in the "following up" of infectious,
verminous, and dirty cases.
T. W. Letchworth, Esq., F.R.C.S., continues to give
his services as Oculist at the Eye Clinic, Bruce Castle, and
errors of refraction are corrected by him, the cost of
spectacles being in necessitous cases partly defrayed from
the public funds.
School Clinics are in operation, and such simple
ailments as Ringworm, Impetigo, Eczema, etc, as are not
receiving adequate treatment elsewhere are treated under the
supervision of the School Medical Officers. This results in
more Speedy restoration to health, with a correspondingbenefit
to the school attendance and Government grant.
Verminous children are cleansed at the Council's
Disinfecting Station, Markfield Road.