Fifth annual report
1932 1932 1930s 86 pages : illustrations REPORTS FROM DISTRICT COMMITTEES. BARNSTAPLE ORTHOPAEDIC CLINIC. It is with extreme regret that we report this year the death of our late Chairman, Mr. J. F. Wreford. Mr. Wreford was Chairman of the Barnstaple Clinic from its inauguration, and his regular a...
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| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
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86 pages : illustrations
REPORTS FROM DISTRICT COMMITTEES. BARNSTAPLE ORTHOPAEDIC CLINIC. It is with extreme regret that we report this year the death of our late Chairman, Mr. J. F. Wreford. Mr. Wreford was Chairman of the Barnstaple Clinic from its inauguration, and his regular attendances and sustained interest were an unfailing source of much practical help. During 1932, 133 new cases were examined. There were 1,158 attendances and 27 children were sent to hospital. Outstanding features of the year have been the large number of school children sent in for corrective treatment and of adults sent for consultation and treatment. Only 8 tubercular cases were admitted. The nurses of the St. John's Ambulance Corps have now joined with the British Red Cross in assisting at the Clinic, and we wish to express our gratitude to both these organisations. The number of our voluntary transport helpers has increased, and we thank them, as without their help this scattered area would be impossible to work. This year we have lost the services of Miss Richards, who had been Hon. Secretary to the Clinic since it opened in November, 1927. The rapid growth of the Clinic is in itself a tribute to the valuable work she has always given, and she will be greatly missed. E.B. MEW, Hon. Sec. EXETER ORTHOPAEDIC CLINIC. At the beginning of the year we had 197 on the register and we ended it with 293. Of these about 35 had made either no attendances or such very irregular ones that they have since been discharged by the Surgeon for non-attendance or non-co-operation in treatment. Most of them were slight cases whose parents were too lazy or too indifferent to report at the Clinic to say how the children were progressing or parents clearly in a position to pay something towards treatment but who obstinately refused to make any financial effort for their children. The V.A.D.'s continue to give excellent and unfailing help. We regret the loss — we hope only temporarily — of Mrs. Brown through illness. Under her the organisation and rota of V.A.D. workers at the weekly Clinic went smoothly and without hitch. 26
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