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A— Newbury Hall Clinic. B— Mayesbrook Clinic.
Ear, Nose and Throat Clinic.
The E.N.T. Clinic is held at Valentines Mansion, the Surgeon attending
one session weekly.
47 sessions were held during 1958 and 613 attendances were made by
263 children of school age, of whom 177 were new cases.
The Consulting Ear. Nose and Throat Surgeon (Miss Margaret Mason,
F.R.C.S.) submits the following report:—
" This has been a fairly uneventful year at the Clinic; the work
proceeded as usual, with a slightly increased number of attendances—
613 during the year—(177 for the first time) as against 588 in 1957.
As might be expected, a good many of these were cases of tonsil
and adenoid disease, and 96 had operations for this, at King George
Hospital and at llford Isolation (now Chadwell Heath) Hospital. We
were again fortunate in that there was no summer poliomyelitis outbreak
last year, and no closure of beds was necessary. The waiting
list is therefore still very short, and stood at 21 at the end of the year.
The remainder comprised the usual assortment of conditions:
otitis media, sinusitis, 1 case of mastoiditis, deafness, both slight and
severe in degree, allergy, and constitutional lack of resistance to upper
respiratory infections. Several of these latter have been treated with
the appropriate vaccines, and the result so far has been encouraging."

During 1958 392 children were operated on for the removal of enlarged
tonsils and adenoids as follows:—
King George Hospital 257
Chadwell Heath Hospital 64
Others 71
These figures include those cases referred by private practitioners.