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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

London County Council 1963

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]

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Table: Routine audiometer testing—The numbers of children given 'rapid-sweep' audiometer tests during 1963 are as follows:

Routine audiometer testing—The numbers of children given 'rapid-sweep' audiometer tests during 1963 are as follows:

Pupils given screening tests60,239
Pupils failing screening tests given pure tone tests4,225
Pupils failing pure tone tests referred to otologists1,758

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Speech therapy—By the end of the year 287 sessions a week were being held, 163 in
55 clinics and 124 in special schools. During the year 1,285 pupils were assessed as requiring
speech therapy (including two recommendations for boarding schools), whilst 685 were
discharged from treatment and 270 ceased to attend. The number of pupils under treatment
at the end of the year was 2,722, whilst 289 were on the waiting list.

Table: Child guidance units—Details of the work done during the year at the seven child guidance units maintained by the Council follow:

Child guidance units—Details of the work done during the year at the seven child guidance units maintained by the Council follow:

Patients
At 1 January, 1963At 31 December, 1963
On waiting list:On waiting list:
(a) awaiting first interview207(a) awaiting first interview207
(b) interviewed and awaiting treatment115(b) interviewed and awaiting treatment85
In attendance:In attendance:
(a) active387(a) active415
(b) under review*471(b) under review*376
During 1963During 1963
Applications received988Applications withdrawn266
Cases closed819
2,1682,168

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* Some cases are kept' under review 'for a time after active treatment has ceased; others are closed as soon
as active treatment has ceased, any further visits, etc., being regarded as 'follow up
Student health service
The student health service was started at Barrett Street technical college at the beginning
of the 1960/61 session (see page 112 of my report for 1960). In 1961 it was decided to extend
the scheme to the City of Westminster and Brixton day colleges.

Table: The following table gives statistics of the work done in 1963:

The following table gives statistics of the work done in 1963:

Barrett Street CollegeCity of Westminster CollegeBrixton College
No. of new students under 19 years returning questionnaires217195160
No. invited for interview after scrutiny of completed questionnaire702228
No. of students seen by doctor:
(a) following invitation—first attendances621228
—subsequent attendances14-9
(b) voluntary—first attendances1241522
—subsequent attendances60-37
No. of students referred for treatment81919
No. of doctor's sessions302810
No. vaccinated against smallpox---
No. X-rayed—mobile unit---
No. given poliomyelitis immunisation-5135

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The scheme was introduced at Westminster Technical College in September 1963.
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