FOURTEENTH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

of all creeds. Many of the children are assault cases and
need healing in body, mind and spirit.
We aim at treating the whole child-at giving them a

normal child life in a Christian atmosphere.
Strict discipline has always to be maintained, but we

want them to forget fear.
Besides our excellent medical staff we have one asset

of immense value, a real " Nannie," and are able to keep
an individual touch on every child, and give help
physically, mentally and morally. The school, too, is a
very distinctive feature of the Home.
From the beginning Mr. Davies Colley, of Guy's, has

been Treasurer and mainstay, and the L.C.C. has been
most kind.

C. E. BUNYON,
Chairman.

AN IMPRESSION OF THE CHILDREN'S MEDICAL
HOME, WADDON

THE medical practitioner faced with the care of vulvo-
vaginitis in little girls may well feel all the social emotions
purged by pity and terror-pity for the innocent victim
and terror for its possible consequences to other small
innocents. The physical injury carries with it a psycho-
logical wound, all the deeper for the very impressionable
age at which it has been inflicted, and the prolonged local
treatment has unavoidably further special physiological
and psychological dangers, to be counteracted only by
humane assiduous care demanding the highest skill and
the happiest moral surroundings.
Few homes among hospital patients can provide this;

and too often the best meaning institutional surroundings
and discipline bleakly annul in the realm of the spirit the
most skilful and unremitting individual care. It is
therefore a welcome surprise to find in an institution the
obvious and unmistakable proofs-in its children-of
affectionate personal care inextricably interwoven with
the happiest moral surroundings.
The Children's Medical Home at Waddon is an old-

fashioned country villa in its own wide gardens. Its
furnishing is simple, it is well lighted and home-like; and
clean without the pervading odour of newly scrubbed
boards, Its children are plainly healthy, vigorous and

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bright, and as plainly content and happy. They are
schooled, and the schooling has a religious foundation.
Their natural instincts for possession and rivalry and their
natural propensities to seek pleasure are, with the touch
of genius, used to teach them to discipline themselves;
and so exactly and successfully that no case of cross-
reinfection has ever occurred there, though the children
live and play together.
To see this children's home and to watch its children

is a valuable and gratifying experience to all medical
practitioners. All of us fortunate enough to have had
this experience believe that our school teachers could do
no better than to study the ingenious, kindly and
humorous methods devised and practised there, with such
happy results, by the Matron and her Nurses.

H. M. HANSCHELL.

The President and Council of The Medical Society for
the Study of Venereal Diseases wish to express to Miss
Bunyon, Dr. Kathleen Brown, Mrs. Woolner, the Matron,
and the other Officers of the Children's Medical Home
their sincere appreciation of the hospitality extended to
its members on the occasion of the Annual General
Meeting.

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