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Survey of Children's Development—Heights and Weights and
their Correlation with Educational Growth and Development
Assistance was given to Professor Jack Tizard of the Child
Development Research Group and his colleagues, involving
11-year-old children attending schools in the Borough.
South-East Regional Survey of Certain Chromosome Anomalies
and Congenital Malformations
This survey continued throughout 1971, staff notifying the
Paediatric Research Unit at Guy's Hospital on live and stillborn
children who suffer from—
Major defects of the central nervous system
Hare-lip with or without cleft palate
Cleft palate without hare-lip
Hirschsprung's Disease
Autosomal chromosome anomalies
Congenital Rubella Survey
As mentioned elsewhere, rubella vaccine became widely used
for girls between their 11th and 14th birthdays and it is hoped
that this will result in an eventual decline in the incidence of congenital defects due to intrauterine infection with rubella virus.
Recent experience has shown that it is usually possible to differentiate
such defects from those due to other causes by means of the
clinical manifestations and by laboratory tests.
Paediatricians and Medical Officers of Health have been
requested to report clinical details and to send laboratory specimens on children who are suspected to be suffering defects due
to this congenital infection as it is believed that a significant
number of the children may be seen for the first time in Audiology and other Clinics run by Local Health Authorities, or even
at school entry.
British Birth Survey
This study continued during the current year. A national
sample of children examined during the work of the previous
year were followed up by questionnaire and simple developmental
screening by Medical Officers.
Welfare Foods
Since the closure of the local offices of the Ministry of Food in
1954, responsibility for the distribution of National Welfare Foods
has passed, via the London County Council, to the London