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and despite giving special appointments to the mothers and
good team work by the staff, the clinic has been crowded.
Re-attendances have been good and results satisfactory.
Fifty per cent, of the lapsed cases ceased to attend because
of school attendance or sickness of the child or owing to
sickness or pregnancy of the mother. In very few instances
only is the lapse due to indifference on the mother's part.
Children have been referred to the clinic by doctors in
practice and by hospitals in the district and we have been
glad to co-operate with them. In 94 instances the treatment
was combined with Inhalations and suitable cases are
given Massage on the same morning of attendance.
An analysis of cases follows:—In most cases each
group is divided into sub-groups to include some condition
subsidiary to the main one. It has been interesting to see
the good response made by the highly-strung children and
to observe how rapidly teeth are cut, or standing or walking
achieved where these developments are delayed. Mothers
frequently ask for a second course of treatment for their
children. In view of the many and varied calls on a
Bethnal Green mother's time this fact is encouraging for
the future. We look forward to the increased facilities
that the installation of a third lamp will give us.
My thanks are due to the Nursing staff in charge of
this clinic whose enthusiastic co-operation is largely
responsible for the increased work in the past year.