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At Mayesbrook Clinic, 31 children of school age were discharged from
the Artificial Sunlight Clinic, 23 as cured, and 8 discharged due to absence.
4 children were still receiving treatment at the end of the year.
Aural Clinic.
The Aural Clinic is held at Valentines Mansion, the Surgeon attending
two sessions weekly for 40 weeks and one session weekly for 12 weeks.
92 sessions were held during 1952 and 1,411 attendances were made
by 873 children of school age, of whom 292 were new cases.
The Consulting Oto-Rhino-Laryngologist (Mr. Morton Marks) submits
the following report:—
"During 1952 the main problem has been the reduction of the
enormous waiting list of tonsil and adenoid operations for this area.
Some children are still awaiting operation who were placed on the
list in 1946. It was felt that many of these no longer required
operation and with this in view 1 undertook to see all these cases
and review the whole waiting list. It was found that approximately
50% of the cases had either been operated on elsewhere or were
no longer in need of operation and this in itself has considerably
reduced the numbers.
Furthermore, I have been farming out many of these operation
cases to other of my hospitals particularly East Ham Memorial and
St. Mary's Plaistow. Thirdly, we are now in the process of commencing
a double operating session on Wednesday afternoons and
evenings at Ilford Isolation Hospital wherein we hope to deal with
12 children a week. At the moment, however, owing to the need of
utilizing these beds for infectious cases, we have had to delay the
commencement of this service.
By these measures it should be possible in the coming year
eventually to reduce our numbers to manageable proportions."
The Surgeons attending the Clinic during 1952 were:—
Mr. Wm. Ibbotson, F.R.C.S., 2 sessions weekly to 30th April.
Mr. J. G. Stonham, F.R.C.S., 1 session weekly 1st May to
3rd December.
Mr. Morton Marks, M.R.C.S., 1 session weekly 1st May to
31st December.
The following table shows the work of the Clinic:—