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and during the earlier part of the year also in another school.
These corrective classes are arranged by the Head Teacher, and
include children picked out by the class teachers on account
of round shoulders, fiat chest, curved backs, mouth-breathing',
fiat feet, etc. The children are seen and suitable cases
approved for the class by a medical officer, who inspects
them in association with the organiser of physical training. The
class is held for 20 minutes daily. The more intractable cases are
drafted from time to time to the central remedial exercises
clinic. At the time of preparation of this report, the temporary
closure of the corrective class at the Whitehorse Manor Girls'
School had been found necessary. It is hoped that circumstances
will allow of its early re-opening. It is anticipated that similar
classes will shortly be established in at least four other Girls'
Departments.
(b) Massage Clinic.—A massage clinic is conducted at the
Central Polytechnic by Miss Batson as masseuse, in close associs'-ion
with Miss Appleton's spinal remedial clinic. Children
suffering from the effects of infantile paralysis, club feet, and
various forms of muscular atrophy and dystrophy receive a combination
of massage and exercise. The following details of children
treated may be given:—
Infantile paralysis 16
Hemiplegia 4
Erb's paralysis 1
Pseudo-hypertrophic dystrophy 2
Torticollis 5
Friedreich's ataxy 1
Cengenital dislocation of hip 2
Scoliosis 16
Old fractures, with complications 2
Collapsed lung after pneumonia 1
Club foot 2
Flat foot 5
Chorea 1
Rickets 3
General debility and other conditions 6
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(c) Breathing Class.—A breathing class is also held by Miss
Batson in the same room as the above-named clinics. 253 children
attended during the year. Of these, 235 were children) who
were admitted to the class two weeks after undergoing operations
for enlarged tonsils and adenoids, while 18 were other children
needing breathing exercises. The improvement in physique is
very marked, and has been referred to in another paragraph.
The class has taken a very definite and important place in the
procedure for dealing with children suffering from unhealthy conditions
of the naso-pharynx, as well as for others needing instruction
in correot breathing.