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The number of children referred to the clinic during the year was 104, which,
together with 64 cases in hand at the beginning of the year makes a total of 168 cases.
The age distribution of the 104 new cases was: from 5 to 8 years, 46; 9 to 11
years, 34; 12 to 14 years, 21; over 14 years, 3. The following is an analysis of the
cases dealt with:—
Source of reference.
From out-patient clinics of West End
hospital 50
School care committees 22
Other hospitals 14
Juvenile courts 9
Other child guidance clinics 3
Private practitioners 2
Head teachers 2
Child guidance council 1
Marylebone Health Society 1
Total 104
Reasons for reference.
Tics and jerky movements 14
Stealing 13
Backwardness 10
Unmanageable 10
Anxieties 10
Restlessness 7
Stammer and speech defects 6
Hysterical illnesses 4
Intelligence tests only 4
Advice re school 3
Sex difficulties 3
Night terrors 3
Solitariness 3
Enuresis 3
Enuresis and faecal incontinence 2
Faecal incontinence 1
Spitefulness 2
Screaming 2
Temper 2
Masturbation 1
Truanting 1
Total 104
Results obtained.
Cases closed—
Adjusted 41
Partially adjusted 10
Unadjusted or parents unco-operative 14
Transferred to other clinics 4
Unsuitable for treatment 5
Consultation only 21
Cases still under treatment 73
Total 168
Nursery schools.
Much attention was given in 1934 to questions concerning nursery schools
and their possible development. A summary is given below of the action taken by
the Council in recent years and of the various ways in which the general question
has recently been brought to notice.
Voluntary nursery schools have been aided by maintenance grants from the
Council since 1919. There are now twelve such schools in London recognised by
the Council for grant.
In 1921, the Council provided 100 nursery school places on the Stowage site,
(Greenwich), where Miss Margaret McMillan had already established a voluntary
nursery school which was aided by grant from the Council. Since Miss McMillan's
death in 1931, the whole of the nursery school on the site has been maintained by
the Council. For ten years the Council's school and the voluntary school had been
organised together as one school under one superintendent.
In 1930, two experimental detached nursery schools were opened: Columbiamarket
and Old Church-road. Reports on the working of these schools were
considered, and it was decided that, while in essentials the schools were fulfilling
their purpose, further experience was necessary before any final conclusions could
be reached on certain points of staffing and reorganisation, and also on the question
raised by the consultative committee of head mistresses of infants' schools that
nursery classes should be provided rather than detached nursery schools.
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