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"In the beginning of October a special aural clinic session
was held at the School for the Deaf for those children attending
this school. A few children were found who required clinic treatment
and one with intermittent ear discharge. On the whole, the
educational progress made by the children attending this school is
remarkably good. The school is fitted with a Western Electric
Group Hearing Aids Unit, and its advantage in assisting the
teaching of the deaf are highly spoken of by the head teacher.
"The general health and nutrition of the children seen at the
clinic during the year were, with perhaps a few exceptions, well
up to standard. Among the large number of school children who
are supplied with such useful nutritional food adjuvants as cod
liver oil and malt, Parrish's Food, calcium lactophosphates, etc.,
on the recommendation of the school medical officers were many
of those patients who attended the aural clinic. This is a most
useful service, for a good standard of health is a most important
factor in the recovery of patients suffering from ear, nose and
throat affections."
The numbers of cases who attended the clinic during the year
and the total attendances are shown in the statistical summary at
the end of this Report.
(d) Orthopaedic and Physiotherapy Clinic.—The clinic is under
the Clinical charge of Mr. G. Rigby Jones, M.C., F.R.C.S., Consultant
Orthopædic Surgeon at the Connaught Hospital, who has
kindly contributed the following:—
"The Orthopaedic Clinic at Hale End School has continued
satisfactorily during the last year but the arrangements for the
consultant attending have still not been made definite by the
Regional Hospital Board and consequently I am continuing to
attend in an honorary capacity.
"During the year a depolarised galvanisation unit has been
purchased through the Hospital Management Committee and this
is particularly valuable in patients suffering from infantile paralysis
and in the small child since it provides electrical stimulation to
paralysed muscles which is not painful.
"The position with regard to in-patient treatment of children
at the Connaught Hospital has improved very considerably during
the last year and the hospital is now able to offer almost immediate
admission for those requiring it."
The following tables compiled by Miss Garratt, C.S.P., Physiotherapist,
show the work done at the clinic:—