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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
Ealing 1930
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ealing]
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form a class for stammering children at the Mattock Lane
Health Centre in charge of a trained instructress, who holds
the Diploma of the Central School of Speech Training. The
children will attend the class, consisting of 12 children, on two
sessions a week, each session lasting one hour. At the end of
twelve weeks the children will be medically examined and their
progress ascertained. The children cured of their defect will be
allowed to leave the class, those needing further instruction will
continue to attend, the number of twelve being made up by new
cases.
The assistance of the teachers and parents has been invoked
and to them printed instructions regarding the supervision of the
children at school and at home have been issued. From the
interest which all have evinced in the class good results are bound
to follow.
(/) Payments for Treatment .—The following amounts were received during the year for the treatment of children in the Health Centres:—
| £ | s. | d. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dental Treatment | 202 | 9 | 0 |
| Throat Operations | 32 | 17 | 6 |
| Spectacles | 61 | 9 | 5 |
| Treatment at National Orthopaedic Hospital | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| X-Ray Treatment for Ringworm of Head | 2 | 12 | 0 |
| Surgical Appliances | 5 | 11 | 0 |
| Massage Treatment | 25 | 15 | 9 |
| Other Payments, from Maternity and Child Welfar Committee, etc. | e 103 | 14 | 2 |
| £436 | 10 | 10 |
OPEN AIR EDUCATION.
As stated in the previous year's report the teachers take every
opportunity of holding classes in the open air whenever the weather
permits them to do so, and there is no doubt that not only the
teachers, but the children themselves, are now recognising that
the more time spent in the open air and particularly in the
sunshine the better in health they will be.