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Orthopaedic Clinics
Dr. E. M. Palser, consultant in physical medicine to the
Hornsey Orthopaedic Clinic, reports:-
"During this year 131 new patients have been seen - 62 of preschool
age and 69 over five years. Total attendances were 625, of
which 212 were of pre-school age and 413 over five years.
From mid-April to mid-September a physiotherapist was in
attendance, and on the 14th October our previous physiotherapist,
Mrs. Allardyce, returned to this clinic, and is now building up the
treatment sessions. There have been 496 attendances so far, and a
considerably larger number is expected during 1964.
The usual small number of cases requiring surgical or other
hospital treatment have been seen and duly transferred.
Of the remaining it is becoming apparent that the number of
teenage children with foot trouble is decreasing, presumably because
they have already been seen and treated in their earlier school and
pre-school years.
The number of pre-school age children whose principal
abnormality is knock-knees is proportionately increasing".
Mr. E. H. Hambly, consulting orthopaedic surgeon to Lordship
Lane Clinic, reports:-
"As this is the last year in which the Area will operate in its
present form, and as I have been conducting the schools' Orthopaedic
Clinic for the Area for seventeen years, I would like to say how
much I have enjoyed taking these clinics.
This centre is well known as a very attractive one to work in,
both from the point of view of the consultant and from the patient's
point of view. We have been especially helped by our relations with
the Vale Road Physically Handicapped School, thanks to Dr. Dunham
and Mr. Ives and his staff, and Mrs. Hurrell, school nurse. Their
patients include a great number of muscular dystrophy cases and they
have been particularly helped by the work of Miss Marcus, at Vale
Road.
I would also like to say how splendid the patients and their
parents have been over the years. On the whole they have carried
out my instructions implicitly and I am always surprised by the way
the parents and children are turned out, when they visit my clinics.
Fathers take an increasing interest in the work of the clinic and
frequently both parents attend. I have always considered that the
Tottenham Area had a medical service which is second to none in
the world and I do think those living in the Area appreciate the fact.
It is all the more amazing as it comprises of an increasing number of
different races who rapidly adapt themselves to the local way of
living and carry out instructions splendidly.
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