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Five children were admitted to the Royal National Orthopaedic
Hospital, Country Branch, Stanmore, during the year, suffering
from (1) outward curvature of tibia, (2) rickets, (3) Perthe's disease,
(4) flexion contracture of right thumb, and (5) pes varus.
Three of the children were discharged during the year, and
two were still in the Hospital on the 31st December.
At the Valentines Clinic, 117 children under five years of age
were treated by the Masseuse during the year, and 427 attendances
were made by these children.
She also treated 26 children who made 147 attendances at the
Mayesbrook Clinic.
Artificial Sunlight Clinic.
48 sessions were held at the Valentines Clinic and 29 at Mayesbrook
Clinic. 82 children in all were treated, making 1,204
attendances.
The conditions treated were as follows:—
Rickets 52
Subnormal nutrition 1
Anaemia, debility or malnutrition 20
Bronchitis 3
Defective enamel to teeth (vitamin deficiency) 1
Adenitis 1
Asthma 1
Anterior polio-myelitis 1
Post pneumonia 1
Tubercular cervical adenitis 1
Total 82
33 cases were still attending at the end of the year; of the
remainder, four had left the district and in nine cases the parents
had discontinued treatment. All the others were discharged from
further treatment, having improved.