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The table inset shows the number of children who received operative and other
forms of treatment at Clinics and Hospitals throughout the year.
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It cannot be too often emphasised that tonsils are not taken out merely because
they are enlarged. Tonsils have to be taken out when they are diseased or when
they are obstructive.
Personally I have found a third
circumstance—to wit—when by reason
of their size and shape they act as
though they were a foreign body at the
back of the throat, making the child feel
a little sick. It is, I believe, the relief
of this symptom which leads to an
increase in appetite noted by so many
mothers after the child has been
operated on for tonsils.

Your surgeons do have a lot to do with making quite sure that no child is
prevented from deriving proper benefit from education at school by reason of lack
of acuity of hearing. This lack of acuity may be due to disease in the ear, as such,
or disease in the nerve which is the bond between the ear and the brain. It is an
expert job both to come to a decision in this matter and to provide any necessary
treatment.
My own opinion is that the Ear, Nose and Throat Surgeon has an even more
important part to play in the future than he has in the past.
TREATMENT OF DEFECTS OF
NOSE AND THROAT
Total
Number
Treated
Received operative treatment:
(a) for adenoids and chronic
tonsilitis
223
(b) for other nose and throat
conditions
-
Received other forms of treatment
308
Total
531