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Number of weeks spent in such Homes, 491.
Average length of stay per child, 5.9 weeks.
List of complaints for which children under 5 years were
treated at St. Mary's Hospital, and at the Children's Hospital,
Balaam Street:—
St. Mary's Hospital, Plaistow, E.13.
Abscess 4 Injury to:—
Accident 1 Arm 1
Adenitis 3 Eye 1
Appendicitis 1 Foot 1
Balanitis 1 Head 3
Blepharitis 1 Leg 1
Bronchitis 17 Knee 1
Burns 5 Intussusception 2
Jaundice 1
Cerebral Tumour 1Lacerated Foot 1
Colitis 1 Malnutrition 1
Conjunctivitis 3 Marasmus 7
Convulsions 1 Mastoiditis 4
Dermatitis 1 Meningitis 4
Diarrhoea and Vomiting 7 Nephritis 1
Observation (for) 12
Dislocated Hip 1
Ophthalmic Examn. 1
Emphysema 1 1
Enteritis 33 Pneumonia 69
Fractured:— Poisoning 1
Skull 1 Prematurity 1
Femur 1 Pyloric Stenosis 4
Glands of Neck 1 Rickets 2
Haemorrhage 1 8
Sequestrum of Finger 2
Harelip 1 . Strabismus 2
Heart Disease 3 Tonsillitis 1
Hernia (inguinal, etc.) 16 Tonsils and Adenoids 4
Hydrocephalus 1 Whooping Cough 3
Children's Hospital, Balaam Street, E.13.
Bow Legs 1 Malnutrition and
Cleft Palate 1 Marasmus . 25
Colic 1 Melaena 1
C.T.E.V1 Paralysis 1
Diarrhoea 5 Plating Femut 1
Diplegia 1 Pneumonia 2
Enteritis 2 Poliomyelitis 1
Genu Varum 1 Prematurity 1
Rickets 16
Impetigo 2 Spastic Paraplegia 1
Leg condition 1 Vomiting 1
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