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ORTHOPAEDIC, RHEUMATISM AND X-RAY CLINIC.
The British Red Cross Society's Clinic at No. 92, Dalston Lane
is equipped with an X-ray department, an ultra-violet ray department
in which there are two mercury vapour lamps, an exercise room
for medical gymnastics, three treatment rooms equipped with
radiant heat baths, infra-red ray lamps and apparatus for all kinds
of electrical treatment, a diathermy department, a coloured light
treatment department, a paraffin wax bath and a Zotofoam bath. A
short-wave diathermy machine is to be installed.
The Clinic now has the services of C. E. Iredell, Esq., M.D.,
M.R.C.S., and John Roth, Esq., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., D.M.R.E.
The staff of the Clinic are fully qualified sisters under the
direction of Sister K. F. Taylor, C.S.M.M.G., M.E., M.G., M.S.R.,
and they are all members of the Chartered Society of Massage and
Medical Gymnastics.

A fee of 4s. per attendance is charged, but only a small proportion
of the patients are able to contribute at this rate and the
majority of the cases are treated at a reduced fee. Many cases are
treated free of charge, especially in the case of children referred to
the Clinic by the Invalid Children's Aid Association.
The Council makes an annual grant of £150 towards the cost
of the treatment given to the poorer inhabitants of the Borough.