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Total number of examinations made by the Surgeon 501
Total number of cases discharged by the Surgeon 147
Average number of examinations per session 45.5
Number of treatments given 4,816
Number of attendances for after-care 2,915
Number of sessions held—Inspection 11
Treatment 445
Number of visits by Instrument Maker 15
Admissions to Hospital 15
Operated on in Out-patients Department 3
Operations performed 15
Children transferred from Connaught Hospital 15
(e) Cardiac Clinic.—The Specialist Clinic in the charge of Dr.
Mary Wilmers has continued. The fewer sessions now necessary—
seven during 1953—are a reflection of the fewer cases of these
conditions now found in children.
The following is a report on the work done at the Clinic during
1953:—
Number of sessions 7
„ „ attendances 62
„ „ new cases 22
„ „ old cases 19
„ discharged 17
„ of new cases with rheumatic or cardiac defect 6
„ referred to Hospital—Out-patient 1
In-patient 3
„ referred for convalescent home treatment 1
„ still under treatment at end of year 23