Management of stove-in chest in a peripheral clinic.

STOVE-IN chest is a relatively uncommon injury. There have been only three admissions to the Sunderland Group of hospitals during the period I956-60 and this despite the fact that we serve a population of 390,ooo, in an area where there is a considerable amount of heavy industry, including shipbuilding and coalmining. Traffic passing through the town in the summer months to the seaside and coastal towns is quite heavy. In addition, a fourth case was treated in a hospital outside the town.