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Orthopaedic Clinic and Sunlight Treatment.
Statistics.

"During the last year eight patients have been under
treatment at the Country Branch of the Royal National
Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore Middlesex.
C.W., a boy of 8, who had had a little pain and muscle
spasm in the dorsal spine, thought to be early Tuberculosis;
after repeated X-ray and clinical examination no evidence
of this could be found, and he was discharged on 10.1.30.
R.K., boy of 7, admitted on 9.1.30, with Tuberculosis
of the left ankle. The local condition was serious as there
was a persistently draining sinus and an equino-varus deformity.
By June, 1930, the sinus was healed, and on
26.11.30, an operation was performed to stabilise the foot.
His progress was most satisfactory, and he was discharged
on 15.4.31.
F.G., a boy of 8, was admitted on 4.2.30, with a deformity
of the lower dorsal spine, due to Tuberculosis. He
was nursed in recumbency for 15 months, and on 8.5.31
a bone graft operation was performed at the level of the
disease. His post-operative progress has been satisfactory,
and in a short time it will be possible to discharge him
with a spinal support.
D.W., a girl of 13, with left Hemiplegia and
Athetosis, admitted on 30.3.30. Two operations were performed,
a left tibial neurectomy and elongation of the
Tendo-Achilles on 12.4.30, and a tendon transplantation on