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APPENDIX F.
REPORT ON THE WORK OF THE ORTHOPAEDIC CENTRE FOR THE YEAR 1930.
by
J. B. BARNETT, F.R.C.S., Orthopaedic Surgeon to the Council.
The work of the Orthopaedic Centre extends only over the half-year from June 14th, 1930 until
January 3rd, 1931.
As will be observed from the analysis of cases appended, a large number of different types of
deformity have been seen and treated.
Conspicuously successful among cases under treatment have been patients with knock-knees,
scoliosis, flat-feet and with rickety deformities of the tibiae. It is particularly in these cases that the
work of the Clinic is so important. Conditions such as these, easily curable in their early stages, if
left untreated, would involve severe and often, progressive deformity which can be treated only by
long and expensive residence in a hospital.
Co-operation with other sections and centres has been mutually satisfactory.
It is likely that in a few years time, the number of cases seen, and of treatments given, will
diminish, and as time goes on relatively fewer patients should be available owing to the general
decrease of deformity in the Willesden area directly due to the work of the Clinic.
Of the patients admitted for treatment at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital at Stanmore,
under the Council's scheme, K.S., suffering from a severe infantile paralysis, has had the function
of her left leg considerably increased by operation. V.W., suffering from congenital equino-varus,
a deformity of both feet, is still under treatment. P.N., with Tuberculosis of the bones of his neck,
is still in hospital, and will be for some months to come.
Two cases are still waiting admission.