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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Croydon 1961

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]

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Table: Table XSPEECH DEFECTS CLINIC SUMMARY

Table X

SPEECH DEFECTS CLINIC SUMMARY

Total number of cases treated466
Cases discharged183
Cases still attending283
Cases referred for physical treatment17
Cases referred for residential treatment3
Cases referred to Child Guidance1
Cases seen by Neurologist21
Stammerers87
Sigmatism77
Cleft Palate6
Hyper Rhinogsjonia, including Supra-bulbar palsy7
Dyslalla229
Undeveloped Speech30
Developmental Aphasia, including Dysprapia and Dysarthria and allied learning difficulties26
Partially Deaf3
Dysphonia1

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St. Christopher's School is included in the above summary.
In addition 18 children were treated at St. Giles' School.