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3. Surgical boots, surgical appliances which have to
be made and obtained outside the Clinic, plaster beds and
night shoes, have to be paid for by the parents at cost prices
on a weekly repayment basis direct to the Red Cross Post.
4. Cases requiring long in-patient treatment will be
sent to the St. Vincent's Orthopaedic Hospital, Eastcote,
and to the Shropshire Orthopaedic Hospital, Oswestry.
5. The Medical Officer of Health will visit the Centre
from time to time.
6. All cases for whom the Authority accepts responsibility
must be recommended for treatment by the Medical
Officer of Health, and must be provided by the Authority
with an authorisation for attendance at the Centre. Claims
in respect of any other cases cannot be entertained.
7. Records of attendances of all children under treatment
must be submitted to the Medical Officer of Health
monthly.
8. A monthly report on each case must be submitted
to the Authority.
9. When treatment of a child is terminated or ceases
from any cause, the Authority must be promptly notified.
10. Notices of admission or discharge of a child as an
in-patient at a hospital must be immediately notified to the
Authority.
11. Parents will be expected to pay for treatment
according to their means, their contributions being paid
through the Medical Officer of Health.
During the last quarter of the year, 8 infants received
out-patient treatment, making 66 total attendances at the
Red Cross Curative Post. The total cost for this period was
£7 3s. 0d., and the contributions paid by the parents
towards this expenditure amounted to £1 15s. 8d.