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APPENDIX E.
REPORT ON WORK IN THE EYE DEPARTMENT FOR THE YEAR ENDED
31st DECEMBER, 1931,
by
FRANK W. LAW, M.A., M.D., F.R.C.S., B.Chir., Ophthalmic Surgeon to the Council.
The work of the Department has proceeded much more smoothly this year owing to the fact
that all arrears were worked off by the end of last year. No special sessions have been found necessary,
any tendency towards the accumulation of appointments being successfully met by the holding of
a few sessions during the School Holidays, when the ordinary attendances are naturally lower than
during term.
In Table 1 below are given figures for the total attendances at each Clinic. The grand total
of Refraction appointments for the year is 1,427, with attendances 1,220—a very gratifying percentage
attendance of 85.5 per cent. These figures compare well with those for last year, the corresponding
ones being 1,351, 1,030, and 76.2 per cent. Though my figures for last year admittedly
refer only to the last eight months of the year, I estimate that the holding of the extra sessions last
year render the figures comparable. The figures for the Refraction cases are analysed in Table 2
below.
Treatment at the Clinics continues to be satisfactory, and with few exceptions the same statement
applies to treatment at home. The most gratifying feature this year has been the increased
interest and care shewn by parents in the non-operative treatment of Squint, often a very tedious
business. Results have been most encouraging, especially at Health Centre 2.
A few cases requiring in-patient or operative treatment have, as formerly, been admitted into
the Children's Hospital, Paddington Green, and there dealt with by me.
I hope next year to keep detailed notes of all the Refraction cases ; the analysis of these should
prove of considerable clinical and statistical interest.
The figures of attendances at each Clinic are shewn in the following Tables :—
Total Attendances. Table I.
Total
Attendances.
Number of
Sessions.
Average Attendance
per Session.
Clinic 1
1,996
48
41.6
Clinic 2
2,097
50
41.9
Clinic 3
2,025
48
42.2
Refraction Cases. Table II.
Appts. made.
Average
per Session.
Appts.
kept.
Average
per Session.
Percentage
Attendance.
Clinic 1
379
7.9
320
6.7
84.4%
Clinic 2
567
11.3
486
9.7
85.7%
Clinic 3
481
10.0
414
8.6
86.1%
APPENDIX F.
REPORT ON THE WORK OF THE ORTHOPAEDIC CENTRE FOR THE YEAR 1931.
by
H. J. SEDDON, F.R.C.S., Orthopaedic Surgeon to the Council.
Owing to the death of Mr. Barnett, early in 1931, the work of the Council's Orthopaedic Centre
was taken over by me on my appointment as Medical Superintendent and Resident Surgeon at the
Country Branch of the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore.
The attached table indicates the character of the cases dealt with at the Centre, and includes
a list of the cases admitted to the Country Branch of the Hospital under my care.
The results so far achieved have been good, and I hope that with further experience of the
working of the Centre I may be able to produce even more satisfactory results next year.