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SPEECH THERAPY REPORT
No. of children treated
103
No. of children discharged
41
No. of children new
43
No. of sessions
311
Total attendances
1,564
These figures include Avenue Road, Cloister Road, and the
Acton Day Special School. Attendances for the year show a general
improvement and the number of sessions is up as no staff changes
have taken place.
There has been no significant waiting list this year and the
average delay from referral to start of treatment has been just
under one month. This is not unreasonable for a department where
length of courses of treatment may range from 3 months to 3 years.
SPECIAL SCHOOL
The School for Educationally Sub-normal Children was open
for the whole of 1958 and at the end of the year 42 children were
on the roll. During the year 4 new cases were admitted.
TUBERCULOSIS
All new entrants to the Infants' Schools were given a Tuberculin
Patch Test, unless they were already in contact with a known
case of tuberculosis.
In all the number of children tested was 652
Those found to be negative to the test was 649
Those found to be positive to the test was 3
These three children were referred to the Ealing Chest Clinic,
where two of them were X-rayed with clear results; and the third
was given another test which proved to have a negative result.
B. C. G. VACCINATION
During the year B.C.G. Vaccination was offered to all school
children who were over 13 years of age and under 15 years of age
on October 1st, 1958, including those of the Haberdashers' Aske's
Girls' School.
431 Parents consented for their children to participate
409 Children were tested.