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case. The class is held on four afternoons in each week. The
following particulars refer to the work done at the clinic : —
No. of children treated during the year 70
No. discharged as not requiring further treatment 25
No. discharged owing to irregular attendance 3
No. discharged, inadvisable to continue 3
No. discharged, left district or transferred to other
clinics 2
No. discontinuing on leaving school 6
No. attending clinic on December 31st, 1925 31
Total attendances during the year 1698
This clinic draws its cases in Dart from children referred from
routined medical inspections in the schools, or from the school clinic,
and in part from corrective exercise classes, which were conducted
at the following schools : —
Ecclesbourne Girls.
British Girls.
Tavistock Girls.
Winterbourne Girls.
These corrective classes are arranged by the Head Teachers, and
include children picked out by the class teachers on account of
round shoulders, flat chest, curved backs, mouth-breathing, flat
feet, etc. The children are seen and suitable cases approved for
the class by the medical officers, who inspect them in association
with the organiser of physical training. The class is held for
twenty minutes daily. The more intractable cases are drafted from
time to time to the central remedial exercises clinic.
(b) Massage Clinic.—A massage clinic is conducted at
Welcome Hall by Miss Batson as masseuse, in close association
with Miss Appleton's spinal remedial clinic. Children suffering
from the effects of infantile paralysis, club foot, spinal curvature,
and various forms of muscular atrophy and dystrophy receive a
combination of massage and exercise. During the summer term
many of the children on suitable days had their treatment in a
screened portion of the playground at Welcome Hall, being
gradually and increasingly exposed to the rays of the sun. The
experiment, carried out under medical supervision, was felt to be
satisfactory in its results.