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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Barking 1938
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barking]
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During the year, eleven children were admitted to Hospital, ten for operations and one for observation, as follows:—
| Operations: | |
| Amputation extra digit—feet R. and L. | 1 |
| Arthrodesis—base of metacarpal I and plaster | 1 |
| Arthrode is—proximal joint—foot | 2 |
| Scaphoid Arthrodesis R. & L. and plaster | 1 |
| Manipulation—feet and plaster | 1 |
| Open elongation T. A. R. & L. and plaster | 1 |
| Plaster bed | 1 |
| Tenotomies adductors and plaster | 1 |
| Tenotomies Tendo Achillis | 2 |
| Transposition Tendon flexor longus pollicis and plaster | 1 |
| 12 | |
| Observation | 1 |
| Total | 13 |