Helping pensioners to keep warm.

way results in severe crushing injury causing extensive soft tissue damage, and on occasions, fractures of the bones of the hands, forearms, or feet (figs 2 and 3). I saw these six children who needed admission to hospital, their injuries ranging from soft tissue damage alone to multiple displaced open fractures of the phalanges. They have been followed up clinically and radiologically for six months and all have regained full function in the injured part.