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TREATMENT
(a) Orthopaedic.—The facilities provided by the Education
Authority's Orthopaedic Scheme are available for all children
attending the Welfare Centres.
Miss Garratt, C.S.P., has kindly furnished the following
information with respect to children under five years of age:—
Defects Seen at Orthopaedic Clinic in Children Under
Five Years of Age
Anterior Poliomyelitis 4 Talipes—
Scoliosis, Lordosis, Kyphosis 2 (a) Equino Varus 2
Rickets—(a) Genu Varum 22 (b) Calcaneo Valgus 9
(b) Genu Valgum 22 (c) Mid Tarsal Varus 1
Pes Piano Valgus 24 Torticollis 5
Spastic Paralysis 3 Erbs Paralysis1
Progressive Muscular Congenital Defects 3
Atrophy 1 Miscellaneous 2
Total 101
No. of treatments given—1,139.
(b) Sunlight.—376 ultra-violet light treatments were given
during the year.
(c) Dental.—Mr. L. W. Elmer, L.D.S., Senior Dental Officer,
reports as follows:—
"As far as possible every expectant and nursing mother
and pre-school child referred to us from the welfare centres
has been examined.
"The infants have increased in numbers and it is pleasing
to find that a larger proportion have 'stayed the course' and
have been made dentally fit.
"Almost double the number of mothers have been
referred and examined but only 120 have been made really
dentally fit. This is a slightly better proportion than last
year, but nothing has occurred to alter my opinion that a
concentration upon the dental education and treatment of the
adolescent female would be far more fruitful of results than
the present concentration upon the expectant and nursing
mother."
The following gives details of the work done during the year
by the Dental Staff:—