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"(e) That the School Medical Officer be directed to refer
all other suitable cases, where treatment is recommended
and is not otherwise provided, to the
Invalid Children's Aid Association ";
and on July 9th, 1913, the following further resolution with
regard to dental treatment, viz.:—
"(a) That the Education Committee be recommended to
arrange for Dr. Guanziroli to attend at Southey
Hall on one morning of each week (School Holidays
excepted) to undertake dental treatment;
"(b) That Dr. Guanziroli be paid at the rate of £50 per
annum in respect of his services;
"(c) That, in the first instance, the cases to be treated
shall be those recommended by the School Medical
Officer as those most needing treatment;
"(d) That the Education Committee be recommended to
authorise this Sub-Committee to make all the
necessary arrangements for the establishment of
the dental clinic."
During the time that this report has been prepared the
Clinic has commenced work.
Ringworm.
It will be seen that the process of rigid exclusion is making
a steady decrease in the number of cases of Ringworm of the
scalp, as shown by the following figures:—
1910 162 cases discovered.
1911 115 do. do.
1912 109 do. do.
1913 46 do. do.
Of the 4G new cases that occurred during the year a certain
number were children coming from other districts, where they
had been attending school in an infective condition, and a
certain number were children who had just reached school age
and had applied for admission to school, and their condition
was discovered by the Nurse at the time.
There has still been trouble with two long-standing cases.
The one to which I referred in my report for last year as
having had ringworm for seven years was admitted to school
on January 22nd of this year. She had been under treatment,
and eventually the parents had consulted another specialist,
one of the leading dermatologists of the present day, the report
of whose action and findings is contained in the following
extracts from his letter to the practitioner under whose treatment
the child had been.
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