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The treatment at the hospital includes operative, electrical
and massage treatment, remedial exercises and the supply of surgical
appliances, and is carried out under the direction of an orthopaedic
surgeon.
Five out-patients have received treatment during the year.
The total out-patient attendances were 113.
Payment is made to the Hospital Authorities by a per capita
grant contribution in respect of East Ham scholars sent to the
Hospital through the School Medical Service.
All children referred by the Authority's Medical Officers to
the Hospital for treatment are kept under observation at frequent
intervals at one or other of the School Clinics, in order that the
progress of the cases may be watched and recorded, and to ensure
that treatment has not been allowed to lapse. If at any time such
a case fails to attend the School Clinic it automatically becomes
included in the following up list of one of the School Nurses.
The recent extension of facilities for orthopaedic treatment
at the East Ham Memorial Hospital has enabled the School
Medical Department to refer several cases to this Hospital under
the general terms of agreement between the East Ham Corporation
and the Hospital Authorities.
(j) The Light Clinic.
A full account of the arrangements and methods adopted in
regard to treatment by artificial light has been included in previous
reports. No variation has been made in connection with
the methods described, and very satisfactory results continue to
be obtained.
The following table furnishes a brief summary of the cases
treated by general and local irradiation throughout the year.