CARE OF CHILDREN.
RHEUMATISM IN liON©©*#\
(From "The Post's" Representative^) LONDON, l«h Apjjkj£ r: London children suffering from i£ea£ matism are to have greatly increase® hospital accommodation. From the *ci ports received from school doctors t% , is estimated that there are some 10,000; children suffering from rheumatic Bymp*i toms. Of these about 350 require* spe.l cial hospital treatment. The Metropoilt tan Asylums Board, therefore, has d*e7 cided to extend its Queen Mary's Hosp pital for Children ,»t Carshalton, bjfi building further accommodation for thisfl number of London children with .rheu# niatic disease; and to meet immediate'! urgent requirements by setting (Widejj 56 beds at their High Wood Hospital for Children, Brentwood. • ■■'.;. In. January-j 1926, the board, agreed to the provision of 60 beds for research purposes, but the Ministry of Heacllhjj has pow emphasised the need for fur« | ther hospital accommodation. Rheumatism has been shown, to bfli particularly a disease affecting chilfw ren of school a_ge, there being
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 129, 4 June 1927, Page 5
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158CARE OF CHILDREN. Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 129, 4 June 1927, Page 5
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