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Welfare foods and nutrients are sold at these centres during infant welfare sessions and
also at Central Clinic on Wednesday afternoons.
During the year, the following amounts of welfare foods were issued:-
National Dried Milk 4,761 packets
Vitamin Drops 5,769 bottles
Vitamin A and D tablets 692 packets
Vitamin A, D and C tablets 508 packets
Orange Juice 14,031 bottles
PLAY THERAPY REPORT
In the April of this year we started another group at Annie Prendergast Clinic. After a
rather slow start we are now well established and we had 12 children attending.
In the other three groups which are held at Julia Engwell Clinic, Oxlow Lane Clinic and
Thames View Clinic we had 68 children attending. Some of these children had difficult home
circumstances and 4 had speech difficulties.
We also had 4 children attending for play therapy after being assessed at Kingsley Hall.
KINGSLEY HALL ASSESSMENT CENTRE
The centre continued its useful work throughout 1972. We had 35 admissions and 32
discharges with an average attendance of 12 a day. So it was a busy year for assessments.
We had 8 staff for most of the year. We were very sorry to lose Pam Rawlings (who left
to have a baby) and our faithful Mrs. Baker who has been in this building for eighteen years. We
wish her a very happy retirement.
The children made their usual visits to various centres sometimes accompanied by the staff
as well as their mothers. These centres include the Nuffield Hearing and Speech Unit, the Wolfson
Centre at the Institute for Child Health and the London Hospital Dental Clinic, and various other
centres for special examinations such as Electro-encephalography or Chromosome tests.
At Kingsley Hall we were lucky this year to obtain the services of an Educational
Psychologist for one session a week to help us assess the children, particularly those with
communication difficulties. In addition we had for two full days each week the help of Mrs.
Warwick our Physiotherapist without whom we would find it very difficult to manage.
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