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Occasional Creches
A total of 5,184 children attended the creches organised by the Council
at Glenthorne Road and Greyhound Road Child Health Centres during 1971
(6,806 attended in 1970).
Observation and Handicap Register
The names of babies that are considered to be at risk of developing a
handicap by reason of adverse factors occuring during pregnancy, labour
or the lying-in period, are entered in the Observation Register. The
Register is scrutinised at regular periods by a Medical Officer so that
the child's progress and development may be kept under review. Should
a handicap become evident the child's name is then transferred to the
Handicap Register.
Observation Register
510 *623) cases in 1971 were notified of whom 2 *(2) had been transferred
to the Handicap Register by the 31st of December 1971.
Handicap Register
The table below is an analysis of notifications in 1971 and relates to
children born in that year, 95*(116) cases were placed on the Register,
of whom 2 *(2) had been transferred from the Observation Register. 10 *(28)
had been notified through the scheme for reporting malformations at birth.
6 *(13) were subsequently removed from the Register due to change of
address or death:
Mongol 1(3)
Educationally/Severely Sub-Normal 1(2)
Spina Bifida 1(2)
Congenital Heart Disease 3(5)
Hare Lip - Cleft Palate 4(2)
Talipes 5(7)
Abnormalities of Genito-Urinary
Tract 4(4)
Limb Abnormalities 4(6)
Delayed Speech –(1)
Disease of Blood 1(–)
Disease of Nervous System 1(1)
Cretin -(-)
Coeliac Disease 1(–)
Deaf & Partial Hearing –(2)
Eye Defects l(-)
Cystic Fibrosis –(–)
Spastic –(2)
Epilepsy -(2)
Skin Diseases 1(-)
Cerebral Palsy 2(-)
Multiple Defects 1(2)
Other 1(4)
The total number on the Handicap Register at the end of 1971 was 224.
*Figures in brackets relate to 1970.
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