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(b) Cleanliness.
Arrangements were conducted on the same lines as in previous
years.
(c) Minor Ailments and Diseases of the Skin.
The attendances at the Minor Ailments Clinics for the year 1939
were as follows
Pymmes Park Clinic. 13,567
Croyland Road Clinic. 11,545
(d) Visual Defects and External Eye Diseases.
During 1939 the Ophthalnic Clinic continued to be conducteders
in the previous year
(e) Nose & Throat Defects
and
(f) Ear Diseases ana Defective Hearing.
The Special Clinic for the treatment of these defects continue
under the care of Mr. William Ibbotson, ana in addition to his monthly
sessions, an Assistant Medical Officer held weekly clinics to keep in
touch with the patients and to see that recommendations were being
carried out. Seventy-seven new cases and 87 old cases were examined
during the year, and the total at tendance was 372. Twenty-four cases
were discharged as cured, and 12 cases were traced by the Health Visitors
as having left school, or the Borough, during the year. These
arrangements lapsed temporarily with the evacuation which followed the
outbreak of war, but were resumed at the end of the year.
Of the 164 children who attended the Clinic, 59 were found by the
Surgeon to be unhealthy in both nose ana throat, 45 to have disease, or
defect, only of the nose, including the nasal sinuses, and 11 to have
only diseased tonsils. Although only 32 complained of deafness, the
Surgeon discovered 104 of the total attenders to be suffering from some
defect, or active disease of the ears. Speech defects were present in
24 cases who were then referred to the Special Speech Clinic.
Miss Oldrey, the Speech Therapist, has submitted the following
report:-
"In January, 1939 there were 32 children receiving treatment in
the Speech Clinic ana 100 on the waiting list. During the year there
have been 66 new cases, making a total of 198 on the books for 1939 or
230 since the Clinic as opened in September 1937. Of the 198, 63 are
on the register for present treatment; (27 are receiving this, the remainder
being, presumably, evacuees) 32 have been discharged cured; 83
are on the waiting list and 20 have had their names removed for various
reasons such as "left the district," refused treatment" etc. etc.
In view of the fact that there 100 cases awating treatment in
January (some of whom had been on the books for over a year) it was
decided to open a fourth session in each week ana one of the sessions
was devoted tosevere cases needing more individual treatment than is
usually given. Between January and Easter 61 children received treatment.;
and between Easter adn July this number was increased to 7l.
By the end of July 30 cases had been discharged cured. The clinic
was reopened on the l3th November for two sessions per week and since
that date 29 children have received treatment of whom 2 have been
discharged. As the September to December period is the longest it
is reasonable to suppose that, had the work of the clinic not been
disturbed by War conditions, the total number of discharges for the
year would have reached 50. It is however, encouraging to note that,
in spite of difficulties, there are at present 83 cases on the waiting
list compared with 100 a year ago"
COMPARISONS. 1938 1939
New Cases. 61 66
Received Treatment. 52 85
Discharges 20 32
Waiting List,, 100 83
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