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22
ENURESIS CLINIC
I am grateful to Dr. Margaret White for the following report: -
During 1966, 311 children attended the three enuresis clinics in the
London Borough of Croydon. Of these 20 attended only once and did not
attend when two further appointments were sent. Of the remaining 291
children, 140 were discharged during the year, and 151 were still attending
at the end of the year. Of those still attending, some have reached
the stage of being dry six nights out of seven, and will soon be discharged.
Others have only started attending towards the end of one year.
The period of treatment averages six months, but varies between two
months and a year.
The children attending include a cross section of all school children.
They include an age range from 4 to 17, and an intelligence range from
educationally subnormal to grammar school. Children are also referred to
the clinic from private schools. Of the 140 discharged, only 16 of the
children had some emotional disturbance, showing that enuresis is not
statistically connected with this form of psychological abnormality. Six
of these had previously attended the Child Guidance Clinic. Nine children
had onset enuresis, the cause being in every case either the birth of
another sibling, or the start of school. The Department has now obtained
a transistorised buzzer which is for use in those rare but difficult cases
where use of the buzzer causes painless but persistent ulcers; it is
already in use in a boy who has had this complication.