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week to carry out any prescribed treatment. Children
found to require instruments or in-patient treatment are
provided for accordingly.
Dr. J. B. Barnett, the Orthopaedic Surgeon,
reports as follows: —
During the year 1930, 49 sessions were held at the
Orthopaedic Clinic, by the Surgeon (11) and the Orthopaedic
Sister (38).
At the beginning of the year, 102 cases were carried
forward from 1929, 65 of them having further treatment.
Twenty-nine cases were transferred to other hospitals or
left the District, two cases attained school age, and the
remaining cases have not re-attended.
Among the cases treated during the year, including 92
new cases, were the following : —
1. Obstetrical -
2. Congenital:—Deformity of feet ... 11
„ „ hips 1
„ „ elbow 1
Erbs' palsy 1
Torticollis 5
3. Acquired: —
Genu varum (bow legs) 84
Genu valgus (knock-knees) 38
Flat feet 11
Infantile paralysis 2
Habitual deformity of feet 1
Deformed finger 1
Contracted scar on hand 1
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Twenty-eight patients were discharged cured; of these
14 were bow legs, 8 had knock-knees, 4 had been treated
for flat feet and 2 were torticollis.
One only was admitted to the Royal National Orthopoedic
Hospital at Stanmore. She was given massage and manipulative
treatment, and on the 2nd August an operation was
perforrived on both legs. She was supplied with a pair of
Shop boots and discharged on the 20th November with
instructions to attend the Clinic in one month's time,