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10 children were discharged during the year, 4 of whom were
admitted during 1935, and 7 were still in the institution on the
31st December, 1936.
8 surgical instruments were supplied to school children during
the year.
36 cases were discharged from the Orthopaedic Clinic as cured
and 146 cases were discharged but recommended to be kept under
observation at school. 16 cases left the district and 47 cases left
school or were transferred to private or secondary schools.
Of the 146 cases discharged for observation at school, 43
were examined during the year, 19 were found to be permanently
cured, in 24 cases the condition was considerably improved and
the children are being kept under observation.
At Valentines Clinic, 256 individual children of school age
were treated by the Masseuse during the year and 2,793
attendances were made by these children.
She also treated 140 children, who made 992 attendances at
the Mayesbrook Clinic. '
(d) Artificial Sunlight Clinic.—50 sessions were held at
Valentines Clinic and 51 at Mayesbrook Clinic. 56 children in all
were treated, making 820 attendances. The lamp used in each
case is a mercury vapour one, the whole of the body surface being
exposed, commencing with a minimum of one minute and reaching
a maximum of ten minutes' exposure. The conditions treated
were as follows :—
Anaemia, Debility and Malnutrition 25
Pulmonary Fibrosis 1
Bronchitis 3
Bronchiectasis 1
Asthma 1
Adenitis 9
Recurrent Boils 3
Other conditions 13