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Among the cases were the following:—
M.B., aged 12, attending Priory Girls' School was in
Northwood Sanatorium for three months. On examination,
condition much improved, is now able to do ordinary work.
G.C., aged 13, attended Beaumont Park Boys' School.
This boy had tubercular pleurisy and was treated in the West
London Hospital. On examination the physical signs in his
chest suggested early phthisis, but after treatment in Northwood
Sanatorium he gained in weight and improved much in general
health. When recently examined the boy was practically well
and is now able to keep in a situation which entails a fair
amount of work in the open air.
L.H., aged 13, of South Acton Girls' School. This girl
suffered from cough and had been losing weight for some time.
There was a history of consumption in the family. Through
the kindness of the Central Aid Society the girl was sent to a
convalescent home for ten weeks and while there she obtained
much benefit and gained 11 lbs. in weight. When medically
examined her health had sufficiently improved to allow her to
apply for a situation
L.F., aged 11, attending Beaumont Park Girls' School was
found in September, 1909, to be suffering from phthisis. There
was no immediate vacancy at one of the Council's beds at
Northwood so the girl was provided with weekly dinners by
the Education Committee and with extra milk and Sunday
dinners by the Central Aid Society. She has been medically
examined each week and a record of her weight was kept.
Under this treatment her general health was improved as far
as possible and she has now been admitted to Northwood
Sanatorium. In this patient the phthisical condition is rather
more advanced than in the preceding ones, but it is hoped that
much improvement will result from the open-air treatment,
besides the undoubted gain in the removal of an infectious
patient from close contact with her younger brothers and
sisters.