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Miss Walker takes a keen interest in her work and these Remedial Clinics
must be of great value to the growing children of Edmonton.
Mr. Seddon has kindly sent a summary of the cases treated at Stanmore,
the country branch of the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, and this will
prove of interest to those members of the Committee who recently visited this
hospital.
Boy, aged 7, was admitted on 2nd January, 1933, with a deformity of
the right forearm resulting from destruction of the radius by acute inflammation
in infancy. The ulna was intact and an operation was performed to make
the ulna serve as a radius, and the result exceeded our expectations. Although
the boy's hand and forearm are far from normal in appearance, the functional
result is very good. He was discharged on 21st June, 1933.
Girl, aged 10|, was admitted on 14th June, 1933, with complete paralysis
of the left foot resulting from infantile paralysis. An operation was performed
to stabilise the foot and she was discharged in plaster on 21st July, 1933. She
was readmitted on 18th September, 1933, and discharged walking well in a
surgical boot on 10th November, 1933.
Boy, aged 10, was admitted on 10th January, 1933, with spinal curvature
of obscure origin. The boy was investigated very thoroughly and was shown
at a meeting of the Royal Society of Medicine. It was finally agreed that
he was suffering from a congenital abnormality of growth affecting the bones
of the spine and the limbs, but that no serious disability was likely to result
from his condition. He was therefore discharged without further treatment
on 24th February, 1933.
Girl, aged 7, was admitted on 6th April, 1933, from the North Middlesex
Hospital with a diagnosis of polio-encephalitis. We found that the disease
had cleared up completely, leaving no trace of paralysis. With a little
encouragement she was soon walking normally and was able to leave the
hospital on 14th June, 1933.
Girl, aged 12, an old case of infantile paralysis, was readmitted on 3rd
May, 1933, with complete paralysis of the right lower limb. An operation
was performed to stabilise the foot; she was discharged in plaster on 11th
August, 1933, and readmitted on 22nd September, 1933. As she had been
wearing a caliper splint for a number of years it was difficult to train her to
walk without this form of support, but when she left us on 1st January, 1934.