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Public Health Department,
Radnor House, Twickenham,
August 1st, 1918.
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to present my Annual Report on the medical
inspection and treatment of children attending the Public Elementary
Schools in Twickenham for the year 1917.
The work of medical inspection has been carried out to almost
the full extent. As will be easily understood, this has been a matter
of considerable difficulty at times, but has been rendered possible by
the willing co-operation of the staff, without which it could not have
been accomplished. While the normal inspections have been made,
the amount of treatment has been considerably larger, the number of
attendances at the Inspection and Minor Ailment Clinic having
increased by almost a thousand on the previously high figure, while
the number of cases treated by the School Dentist was 150 in excess
of those recorded in any year since the treatment was commenced.
There were 4,700 children on the school registers at the end of
the year. The three code groups have been inspected and re-inspections
made where necessary. All the medical inspections have been
carried out by the School Medical Officer.
For reasons of economy in printing and time, the report which
follows will be found to be largely statistical, and is chiefly a record of
work done, for purposes of comparison with previous years. Analysis
of the figures to any extent has not been possible.
I am,
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
George H. Duponk
School Medical Officer,.