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The following three children were admitted to Stanmore for
in-patient treatment:—
Schools (two children)—
1. J. D. F. Vicious union after fracture.
2. W. C. M. Osteitis.
Maternity and Child Welfare—
3. H. Y. F. Metatarsus varus.
Mr. Seddon reports as follows :—
The most important event in the history of the Orthopaedic
Clinic during the last year is the construction of the new Health
Centre. The old quarters were most inadequate, as the treatment
of patients by remedial exercises requires a certain floor
space not to be found in any room at the old Centre.
The Medical Officer of Health and the Borough Architect
were good enough to invite my co-operation in the planning of
the new Centre, and I was allowed to suggest features that have
proved a success at centres elsewhere. We now have a treatment
room of adequate size, particularly in length ; ideal
accommodation for special apparatus ; and a comparatively
novel feature—an enclosed plot where children may perform
remedial exercises in the open air.
Thanks to work done in the past two decades, orthopaedics
is no longer concerned so much with the correction of gross
deformity as with the early detection and treatment of conditions
that may, if neglected, lead to crippling. The parent is no longer
beseeching us to straighten the deformed child, but is even a
little astonished because we pay attention to apparently trivial