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Treatment.
Tonsils and Adenoids.
The same arrangements continued in operation with regard
to the treatment of Tonsils and Adenoids, namely, at Oldchurch
Hospital, Queen Mary's Hospital, Stratford, and King George
Hospital, Ilford.
The Local Authority pays the entire eost where the family
income is within a prescribed scale. Where the income is outside
the scale, the cases are recommended for treatment and the parents
make their own arrangements for payment.
During the year 22 cases were treated under the scheme at a
cost of £12 8s. 6d.
Orthopaedic Treatment.
(a) Ascertainment Clinic. The Consultant Orthopædie
Surgeon paid four visits to the district during the year when
children made 37 attendances at a cost of £1 5s. 0d. Of 9 cases
of bowed tibiic, 2 were admitted to hospital and 5 fitted with
appliances. One of 6 cases of genu valgum was operated on
hospital and 5 fitted with appliances. A case of torticollis was
successfully treated by massage. One severe case of tallipes
admitted to hospital and another ease fitted with splints. One
case of polyarthritis and 2 cases of lesions from old poliomyelitis
were treated at hospital. 3 children suffered from pes planus
and one from kyphoscoliosis were fitted with appliances. Of
the cases, 6 were discharged as cured during the year, and 21 were
under treatment at the end of the year.