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REPORT OF THE ORTHOPAEDIC SURGEON.
Orthopaedic Clinic,
Faircross School,
Barking. Essex.
March, 1927.
To the School Medical Officer.
The year 1926 has shown a very definite increase in the amount
of work undertaken by the Orthopaedic Clinic as will be seen on
reference to the accompanying tables, and as a consequence it
has been found necessary to double the number of attendances of
Miss A. E. Findlay, the Orthopaedic Masseuse.
The Ultra-Violet Lamp has now been installed, and is being
used in the treatment of Rickets, Tuberculosis and other suitable
cases, and the results are being investigated.
It will now be possible to secure earlier admission to hospital,
owing to the increase in the number of beds at my disposal since
appointment as Honorary Surgeon to the Cheyne Hospital for
Children, Chelsea. This institution is recognised by the Board of
Education and the Ministry of Health as affording facilities for the
combined treatment and education of cripples. Beds arc also still
available at Brookfield Orthopaedic Hospital, and the Queen's
Hospital for Children, Hackney Road. At the latter, I can obtain
the expert opinion of Dr. Tindal Atkinson, Radiologist to the
Hospital.
Earlier ascertainment of crippling disorders is now made
possible owing to the active co-operation of the medical officers in
charge of the Infant Welfare Centres, and a number of local medical
practitioners.
Further advances are being made along the lines of the
training and employment of the cripples, so that they may become
self-supporting citizens.
It is therefore humbly put forward that the Orthopaedic
Clinic might now serve as an example which any public or voluntary
body in Essex or elsewhere might see fit to copy.