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ENURETIC CLINIC
During 1957 124 children between 5-15 attended the clinics
at Lodge Road and New Addington. Clinics are held weekly at Lodge
Road and monthly at New Addington. Of this number 52 made their
first attendance in 1957: 72 cases had begun treatment in 1956.
70 children were discharged dry during the year, and 3 left the
district. At the end of the year 51 children were still attending
for treatment, most of whom had only started to attend towards
the end of the year. The average time of treatment being 6 months.
The enuretic machines bought by the Health department and
hired out to the parents of the children were of the greatest
assistance in curing those children who did not respond to the
routine treatment, and during the year 26 children were successfully
treated with the aid of these machines. The average time
taken to become dry in these cases being only 8 weeks.
Number of children registered 161
Number of children attended 124
Number of new cases 52
Number discharged dry 70
Number of children using machine 26
Number still attending 51
EPILEPTICS
32 epileptics were known to the school Health Service as at
31.12.57.
Of these: 12 were attending Ordinary School
10 were in Day School for Physically Handicapped
and Delicate Children
2 were attending our day E. S.N. School
2 were at Lingfield School
2 were receiving Home Tuition
2 were in Hospital (1 at St. Lawrence's Hospital
and 1at Queen Mary's Hospital)
1 was at the Occupation centre
1 was ineducable (in Queen Mary's Hospital)