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TREATMENT 



NUIVIBER OF CASES 



1. 



Examination only 



Surgical care ad^dsed but not given (due to 



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 10. 

 11. 

 12. 



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patient's or family's objection) 



Surgical 



Plaster casts 



Braces 



Bradford frame . 



Buck's extension 



Leather jacket 



Electrical 



X-ray treatment 



Bismuth injection 



Massage 



8 

 65 

 22 

 45 

 3 

 2 

 2 

 1 



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Besides these stated treatments within the hospital, many 

 of the cases received treatment from other sources after leav- 

 ing the hospital jurisdiction. There is record on 3 of the 

 cases of chiropractry treatments given to the patients. In 

 eveiy case the parents had to pay large bills to the chiroprac- 

 tor, but were hypnotized into faith in his supposedly magic 

 powers of cure I The harm that is done by these unscientific 

 practitioners in a field that should receive the best surgical 

 care is appalling; and from a social angle it is distressing 

 to contemplate the cruelty of extorting money from the ig- 

 norant parents who sacrifice actual necessities to pay the bills. 



It is interesting to note the results of the treatments given 

 to the cases here included : 



RESULT OF TREATMENT NU^IBER OF CASES 



1. Cured 12 



2. Improved 86 



3. Unimproved 17 



4. Incurable 6 



In many of the unimproved cases, the cause can be at- 

 tributed to neglect on the patient's part in following the doc- 

 tor's orders, or in returning for regular examination or treat- 

 ment. This point again illustrates the need of a convalescent 

 hospital where patients can be kept till all possible efforts for 

 cure or improvement have been completed. Also of the 11 

 cases cited as having died, none of the inmiediate causes of 

 death were connected with the crippled condition: in 4 cases 

 the cause was generalized tuberculosis; in 1 case, pneumonia: 



5. Dead 



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