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During the calendar year 1933, 127 cases were
admitted. The following table gives details of
the types of cases treated and the results achieved
during the year. It will be seen that most of
the cases are of the type requiring prolonged and
expert dietetic treatment, including cases of malnutrition
and deficiency diseases such as rickets.
These classes of patients cannot generally be kept
long enough in the large hospitals to effect a cure
as acute cases necessarily have a prior claim on
the available accommodation. Forty-three of the
patients were admitted on account of loss of
weight or marasmus (severe wasting). Many of
the patients were suffering from diseases of the
digestive organs, a considerable number of which
were primarily due to improper methods of feeding,
not necessarily the fault of the mother.
Acute respiratory diseases form a moderate proportion
of the cases: 18 children having been
treated for bronchitis and four for acute pneumonia.
Accommodation is also available for children
who have had minor operations in other hospitals
and, during the year under review, 14 patients were
admitted after circumcision and one after an operation
for adenoids. During 1933 there were fortunately
no outbreaks of infectious diseases in the Hospital.