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Details of the work carried out at the Minor Ailments Clinic are
as follows:—
4,712 Children attended making 16,429 attendances in all. 4,220
children were enabled to return to school, the remainder being unfit to
resume school duties. Children suffering from Otorrhoea were allowed
to remain at school provided they attended regularly at the clinic for
treatment. Children suffering from ailments of a continuing nature were
re-examined repeatedly, and 11,717 such examinations were made in the
course of the year. Treatment was applied 10,138 times in respect of
3,122 children.

Verminous Heads:—In dealing with this condition our efforts to
secure the cleansing of children's heads have received material assistance
from the proprietor of a hairdressing establishment in the neighbourhood.
He adopts a process (the nature of which is naturally known
only to the inventor himself) whereby the nits and vermin are removed
from even the dirtiest head's at one sitting. A large number of girls,
who on inspection were found to have a profusion of nits present in
the hair, have been advised to submit themselves to the treatment, and
in most instances this advice has been acted upon.
This method of dealing with children having verminous heads is
not only beneficial to the children, but is also greatly to be preferred1
to the alternative and more drastic measure of cutting the hair short.
The cost of the treatment, which varies from 2/6 to 3 6, according
to the quantity of the child's hair, has to be defrayed by the parents.