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operated regularly at the hospital. The school was recognised by
the then Board of Education as a hospital school. The hospital
continued until the outbreak of war in 1939, when several circumstances
combined to bring about closure.
In the meantime the Physically Defective Centre had been
transferred to the newly erected Open-Air School at Hale End
in September, 1936, and at the same time an excellent suite of rooms
was made available for physiotherapy.
In June the Committee placed on record their sincere thanks
and appreciation of the service rendered by Mr. B. Whitchurch
Howell, F.R.C.S., during the thirty years he had served the
Committee as their Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon.
The following tables compiled by Miss Garratt, C.S.P.,
Physiotherapist, show the work done at the clinic:—