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FOLLOWING UP AND TREATMENT.
It has been possible to follow up cases recommended for
treatment during the past year even more closely than in the
preceding years, and the proportion of cases receiving adequate
and completed treatment is again gratifying, being 8T5 per cent,
of those recommended. Four hundred and forty-two visits were
paid by the school nurse to the homes of children recommended
for treatment in addition to the many visits paid to the schools
for the same purpose, not including visits in connection with
inspected infectious disease.
Some of the parents still, however, seem to think that necessity
for obtaining treatment for their children is rather a mild form of
delusion on the part of the School Medical Officer, than a matter of
importance to the child.
Thirty-seven boys and twenty-five which on being seen at the
routine inspection were considered to require subsequent examination,
were referred to the inspection clinic and dealt with there.
These are therefore included in the total number of cases seen at
Radnor House.