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ENURETIC CLINIC
The numbers attending the enuresis clinic in 1956 increased
on the 1955 total. 98 children attending compared with 73 in 1955.
13.3 were discharged because of poor or very irregular attendance.
During the year a monthly clinic has been started at New Addington
to save the New Addington parents the journey to Croydon.
The attendance at this clinic has not been as high as at the
Lodge Road Clinic. The total attendances were 586.
During the year the Corporation as a local health authority
issued on loan three Enuretic "machines" , which have been of
great value in treating resistant cases. So far there has not
been a single failure among the children treated with these
machines. They have the advantage of clearing up the condition
in two months as opposed to the average of six months in the
ordinary clinic cases.
Total number of children attending 98
Number discharged reported dry 47
Number discharged for non-attendance 13
Number attending at end of year 35
Number referred to Child Guidance Clinic 3
EPILEPTICS
19 epileptics were known to the School Health Service as at
31.12.56. Of these, 12 were attending ordinary schools, 4 were in
our Day school for Physically Handicapped and Delicate Children.
1 was attending our Day E.S.N. School and 2 were at Lingfield
School for Epileptics.
SPASTICS
46 Croydon Spastics were attending school as at 31.12.56.
2 children received Home Teaching
26 were attending St. Giles' School
2 were attending St. Margaret's School, Croydon
5 were at Residential Schools for Physically Handicapped
children
1 was attending a Day School for Partially Deaf
children
2 were attending a Residential School (St. Mary's,
Bexhill)
7 were attending ordinary school
1 was attending Myope School