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The details of the work carried out are shown in Appendix
Table X.
This table represents, of course, only a part of the work
done by the Croydon Child Guidance Clinic. At present the clinic
is still located at 103, Park Lane. It is maintained by the
Hospital Management Committee of Warlingham Park Hospital. It
is staffed by the clinical team of that hospital and supervised
by its consultants. During 1958, a total of 212 new cases were
registered for treatment.
SPEECH THERAPY.
Changes of staff are inevitable in any service, but during
the year under review, the work of the Speech Clinics was more
disturbed than usual hy such difficulties.
An attempt was made by a dual appointment with the Croydon
Hospital Management Committee to link School and Hospital Speech
Therapy Clinics. This was achieved with undoubted benefit to
the patients, but unfortunately, only for a few months.
A room was especially adapted for a Speech Therapist in the
premises at New Addington, which house also Maternity and Child
Welfare and School Minor Ailment Clinics. A daily Speech
Therapy session which meets a real need in the New Addington
area was thus made possible. Regular sessions were held at the
day school for handicapped children and at the school for educationally
sub-normal pupils. Visits to other schools for discussion
with teaching staff were also carried out.
The increase in establishment to the equivalent of three
whole-time speech Therapists allowed such a proper deployment of
resources, only handicapped by staff changes.
Total number of cases treated 315
Total number of cases discharged:
Cured 78
Improved 27 117
Non attended 12
Total number of cases still attending 198