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REPORT OF THE ORTHOPAEDIC
, CLINIC.
Orthopaedic Clinic,
Faircross School,
Barking, Essex.
To the School Medical Officer.
The Orthopaedic Clinic this year has shown a slight increase
in numbers.
Twenty-nine school children and 22 children under school
age were examined by me for the first time, and 119 school children
and 67 children under school age were re-examined during the
year, the findings of my primary examinations being as follows:—
SCHOOL CHILDREN.
Deformities—Bones and Joints—
(a) Congenital
(b) Acquired—
(i) Fractures 1
(ii) Arthritis 1
(iii) Genu Valgum 4
(iv) T.B. Hip 1
— 7
Muscular Deformities—
(a) Congenital abnormality—
(i) Absence of Pectoralis Major 1
(b) Acquired—
(i) Pes Piano Valgus 9
(ii) Kyphosis 2
(iii) Kypho-lordosis 2
(iv) Scoliosis 1
— 15
Paralysis—
(a) Congenital
(b) Acquired—
(i) Anterior Polio Myelitis 2
— 2