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Orthopaedic Service
Hornsey
Mr. Guy Rigby-Jones, F.R.C.S. (Edin), reports that the continuing demand
for treatment is a clear indication of its value and the numbers attending
would make it quite impossible for these children to be transferred to local
hospitals for their orthopaedic care. It would be a great pity if these
services were allowed to be taken out of the hands of the local authorities
who control the welfare and school clinics and have a far better organisation
for inspecting the home circumstances which often play a large part in the
postural defects of children. The great advantage to the child is that
minor ailments and defects can be dealt with outside the hospital atmosphere
and the child is never allowed to think that it is in any way abnormal.

Tottenham
Mr. E. Hambly, F.RC.S., reports that cases are sent early through the
school health and maternity and child welfare services.
Connection with the School for the Physically Handicapped at Vale Road
continues with every co-operation from the Headmaster, Mr. Ives, and his staff.
Dr. Dinham's appointment to the Spastic Section has been a great acquisition
and the consultants work as a team, so far as common ground is concerned.
All operations on children seen at the orthopaedic clinics are done by
Mr. Hambly at St. Ann's General Hospital, Tottenham, which has excellent wards
for orthopaedic work. This is a tie-up between the work of the clinics and
the Hospital Group, which makes for continuity of treatment and enables
parents of the children easily to visit both the Consultant and their children.