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School Psychological Service.
Individual cases seen 241
No. referred to Clinic 35
Child Psychotherapists.
Cases treated 47
Treatment interviews 672
Psychiatric Social Workers.
Interviews at Clinic (Treatment and Social Histories) 1,012
Interviews elsewhere (Home Visits) 23
Waiting List.
Last year 52
This year 96
Cases for diagnosis 17
Awaiting treatment 43
Employment of School-children and Young Persons.—From
special inquiries made at the various schools during 1954, it was found
that 140 children were employed out of school hours. 138 children were
submitted for medical examination in accordance with the Byelaws made
under Part II of the Children and Young Persons Act, 1933, with the
following result:—
Medically fit 138
Employment of Children in Entertainments Provisional Amending
Rules, 1945.—12 Certificates were granted during the year.

Camp Schools.
The Elmbridge Camp School at Cranleigh, Surrey, and Kennylands
Camp School at Kidmore End, near Reading, were taken over entirely by
the Essex Education Committee on the 1st April, 1948.
Admissions and re-admissions of Ilford School-children to these two
Camp Schools and the Hydon Heath Camp are medically examined by the
Assistant Medical Officers prior to entry.
The Causes of Death among Children of School Age (i.e., from
5—15 Years) in Ilford, during 1954, were:—
Acute Isolated Cerebral Myocarditis 1
Ruptured Cerebral Haemangioma 1
Acute Anterior Poliomyelitis 1
Acute Membranous Laryngitis 1
Niemann—Picks Disease 1
Leukaemia 1
Fractured Skull—Road death 1
Acute Influenzal Pneumonia 1
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