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A report has been received from the Educational Psychologist of the Ilford
Child Guidance Clinic as follows:-
"The relevant figures concerning children seen at this Child Guidance
Clinic during 1965 are as follows:-
New cases referred in 1965 31
Cases referred but not seen:
(a) Improved or moved from area 2
(b) Transferred to Barking Child Guidance Clinic 10
(c) Awaiting first interview at end of 1965 1 13
New cases seen during 1965 18
Cases carried over from 1964 33
Total number of Barking children seen during 1965 51
"As you know, no new cases from Barking were accepted at this clinic
after July, 1965 (except where another child in the same family was already
attending this clinic), and all new referrals after that date were to your
own new Child Guidance Clinic in Barking. There were also (as quoted above)
10 children from our waiting list who were transferred to Barking Child
Guidance Clinic when psychiatric sessions became available there. This is
why we only had one Barking child left on our waiting list at the end of
1965, and presumably you will also have the figures from your own Child
Guidance Clinic for the latter part of the year.
"Where children were currently attending this Clinic at the time Barking
Child Guidance Clinic was started, we continued with the cases, as this
continuity of service was felt to be in the best interests of the children
and parents. As our new referrals from Barking stopped during the year, the
number of Barking children attending this clinic will gradually diminish as
the children we are dealing with finish their attendance and, at the same
time, the number of children attending Barking Child Guidance Clinic will
increase as they build up a case load from their new referrals."
EYE DISEASES, DEFECTIVE VISION AND SQUINT
Ophthalmic Specialists of the Regional Hospital Board attended weekly at
Central Clinic, Barking, and at Porters Avenue and Becontree Avenue Clinics,
Dagenham. There is some delay in providing treatment at Becontree Avenue Clinic
owing to the large number of patients in the catchment area of this Clinic.
Additional specialist sessions have been authorised by the Regional Hospital
Board, but unfortunately as yet they have been unable to find an ophthalmic
specialist to do them.
Pupils known to have been treated
(a) External eye diseases and other (excluding errors of
refraction and squint) 212
(b) Errors of refraction (including squint) 1,941
(c) Number of pupils for whom spectacles were prescribed 1,352
An orthoptic clinic is held at Upney Clinic, and 106 school children were
treated during 1965.
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