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SPEECH THERAPY.
The Speech Therapy Clinic held in the Paget
Ward of Barking Hospital was closed for nearly two
months whilst we were without a Speech Therapist.
Since June, however, a full-time Speech Therapist
has been engaged, and during the year over eighty
children have attended for treatment.
FOOT CLINICS.
Five hundred and ninety-five children
attended at the Foot Clinics during the year and one
thousand three hundred and twelve treatments were
given. This showed a slight decrease as compared
with 1948.
SCHOOL CAMPS.
Five hundred and seventy-three children were
medically examined before their admission to Hydon
Heath and other Camps. If, at this examination,
some minor defect was found everything possible was
done to arrange immediate treatment so that the
child should not be deprived of the opportunity of
going away to Camp.
UNCLEANLINESS INSPECTIONS.
Although there were three thousand more
uncleanliness inspections at school during the year
than in 1948, there was an increase of only fourteen
pupils found to be infested.
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