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ROBERT SONNENSCHEIN, M.D.; J. GORDON WILSON, M.D.

Arch Otolaryngol. 1930;11(1):122-131.

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OTOLOGIC COMPLICATIONS OF SWIMMING IN SUMMER CAMPS. DR. FREDERICK T. HILL, Waterville, Me.

An individual study was made of 1,235 students from fourteen selected camps. They were all carefully studied at the beginning of the season. Those giving histories or showing any evidence of ear, nose or throat trouble, such as might predispose to otologic complications (36.5 per cent of the total), were grouped according to the presenting pathologic process, and restrictions based on their clinical pictures were imposed on water activities. One and twenty-nine hundredths per cent of the students had chronic suppurative otitis media and sinusitis and were advised against any immersion in the water; 11.17 per cent were placed under partial restrictions, depending on the conditions. The remaining 24 per cent were not restricted, but were carefully watched by the camp physicians and instructed as to behavior in the water. These students were followed during the summer . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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