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During the year six school children and two children under
school age were admitted to hospital.
The following operations have been carried out:—
(a) School Children—
(i) Sliding osteotomy ulna 1
(ii) Cuneiform osteotomy femur
tion of recurvatum and varum
deformities) 1
(iii) Tarsectomy 1
(iv) Open elongation Tendo Achilles 4
(v) Stoffel's operation—median nerve
(Hemiplegia) 1
(vi) Manipulation of foot and plaster splint 1
(vii) Plaster bed for scoliosis
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(b) Children under School Age—
(i) Tenotomy Tendo Achilles 1
(ii) Manipulation and Plaster Splint
rection of equinus) 1
(iii) Skin grafts for webbed hand 1
(iv) Tenotomy sterno mastoid (Torticollis) 1
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Total 14
The special features of this year's work are the successful
results of the operations performed, particularly the case of
torticollis under school age, and the treatment of club foot at an
early age.
B. WHITCHURCH HOWELL, F.R.C.S.