Annual report for the year 1906 : (9th year of issue) / Metropolitan Asylums Board.

  • Metropolitan Asylums Board (London, England)
Date:
1907
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Credit: Annual report for the year 1906 : (9th year of issue) / Metropolitan Asylums Board. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Table showing the age at which children were admitted :— Age in Years. Microsporum Ringworm. Trichophyton Ringworm. Favus. Undeter¬ mined. Total. 3 107 5 1 18 131 4 72 4 7 83 5 67 8 • • • 12 87 6 77 7 • • • 7 91 7 65 7 9 9 83 8 51 7 9 67 9 34 12 9 8 56 10 19 14 5 38 11 19 8 8 35 13 5 11 4 20 i v. 2 1 9 £) 14 3 4 rj 15 • • • 1 • • • i ] 16 1 ... ... 1 1 521 90 5 89 705 The proportion o£ infants admitted has been increasing since the opening of the schools, and the increase is very striking in this table, for the proportion is about half more than before. X-ray Treatment. In last year’s report I mentioned that the application of the X-rays to the first batch of children treated after the instalment was not satisfactory. Since then I can say it has been, in the hands of Dr. Sale-Barker, a complete success, and a proof of the revolution this method has brought about in the treatment of ringworm. The only slight check experienced was due to the wearing out of the accumulators which supplied the electricity They began to show signs of weakness after about nine months’ use and finally became very unsatisfactory. We have recently obtained our electrical supply from the main, and now again everything is in first-rate working order, and, indeed, an improve¬ ment on the former arrangement. The advantage of this treatment in such an institution over the older method is that it is expeditious and hence economical, certain when carried out by an expert, and painless. We have discharged cured by this method 375 cases, and about 30 others had been treated who were transferred elsewhere and taken out, so that we may put the number of children cured of their ringworm by the X-ray method in 1906 as 400. (Signed) T. COLCOTT FOX.