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Chest Physician 7
Cardiologist 14
Orthopaedic Surgeon 12
E.N.T. 51
Dermatologist 6
Paediatrician 61
Enuresis Clinic 22
Ophthalmologist 5
Audiologist 26
Total 204
Speech Therapy
There is little change to report in connection with the work of the Speech Therapy
Department during 1961. Miss Shipley and Miss Symes have continued to work full
time in the Borough, operating between them seven clinics. There was a slight fall in
attendances towards the end of the year, which as speech therapy is partly concerned
with preventing disorders, is possibly a good sign.
The speech Therapists report:—"We wish to place on record our thanks for the
co-operation shown in our work by the school medical officers, although in some instances
not all children whom we have selected for treatment at school visits have received
the necessary final recommendation from the medical officer.
From September to December 1961 both speech therapists carried out treatment
sessions weekly at the Junior Training Centre at Osborne Hall, on an experimental basis
to see if speech therapy would benefit the mentally handicapped. Only four pupils were
selected as being suitable for therapy, and three of these had not made sufficient progress
to warrant further treatment. The other one, a girl of twelve, made progress, and is
now under weekly treatment at Five Elms Clinic."
Speech Therapy Statistical Return
1. Number of treatments given 2,447
2. Number of patients treated:—
Five Elms Clinic 70
Ashton Gardens Clinic 14
Marks Gate Clinic 21
Oxlow Lane Clinic 15
Leys Clinic 51
The Bentry School 22
Junior Training Centre (Osborne Hall) 5
TOTAL 198
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