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Table IV. Group III. Ear, Nose and Throat Clinic
(Page 120).
A weekly session of the Ear. Nose and Throat Clinic
is held at the North Clinic, Station Road, under Mr. C.
Beney, Ear, Nose and Throat Specialist.
Children requiring tonsil and adenoid operations are
retained for twenty-four hours at the Clinic, and return
home by private conveyance, where they are visited
daily by the school nurses during convalescence.
The prevalence of enlarged tonsils and adenoids as
a defect of school children has already been reported
upon. It does not in any way appear to become
less frequent. The selection of cases for operation
is made by the School Medical Officers. These
cases are referred to the Specialist for his direction, and
finally the operation is arranged either by dissection, or
by the ordinary guillotine method. Fifteen cases were
found to be unsuitable for operation at the Clinic, and
were referred for operation in hospital. It is interesting
to note that no less than 302 children passed through the
Clinic.
I am greatly indebted to Miss V. Vincent and Miss
Price for the valuable services they give at each operation
session.
Mr. Beney submits the following report:—
There is little comment to make this year on the work of the
Ear, Nose and Throat Clinic, except that an increasing number of cases
was seen and treated.
Thirty-nine clinics were held. One hundred and fifty six
operations were successfully performed and again no cases of any serious
complications occurred. There were one hundred and seventy consultations
with the Assistant Medical Officer of Health. A certain
number of cases were referred to their own doctors for treatment, and
I am glad to say that fewer cases had to be admitted to my beds at
St. John's Hospital, Lewisham.
During the last eight years since I was first appointed to do the
work of this Clinic, over one thousand cases have received operative
treatment, with no serious complications. This is a very high standard
indeed and is largely due to the skill of those who administer the
anaesthetics, to the care of the nursing staff, and splendid co-operation
of the voluntary workers."
Charles Beney, m.a., m.b., b.ch., m.r.c.s.