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Scheme have started similar ones. One may hope that they
will gain knowledge from our failures and that their efforts will
be crowned with success.
(i) Orthopaedic : The following table of crippled children
attending the schools was completed with the aid of the Head
Teachers :—
Canal Boat Department.
1. Boy aged 12 years. Paralysis of left leg.
St. George's School.
2. Girl aged 10 years. Infantile paralysis.
St. John's School.
3. Girl aged 13 years. Infantile paralysis.
Belmont Junior Mixed.
4. Girl aged 10 years. Stiff knee.
5. Boy aged 9 years. Defective leg.
Central Boy's School.
6. Boy aged 13 years. Shortened leg due to hip disease.
Hogarth Senior Boys'.
7. Boy aged 13 years. Hip trouble.
8. Boy aged 11 years. Right arm and hand defective.
Hogarth Senior Girls'.
9. Girl aged 13 years. Osteomyelitis.
Strand Junior Mixed.
10. Girl aged 10 years. Lower limbs.
Strand Infants'.
11. Girl aged 5 years. Infantile paralysis.
Orthopaedic Clinic : This clinic is held at Portsdown House,
The Butts, Brentford, on Monday and Thursday afternoons. A
Specialist from the Stanmore Branch of the Royal National
Orthopaedic Hospital attends on the second Thursday in each
month and a trained Masseuse from the same Hospital attends
all sessions of the clinic.
Mr. Seddon's report on the work of this clinic follows the
statistical table relating to this clinic.