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Re- attendances 294
Medical treatment 152
Operative treatment 29
Mr. Savage retired from the service of the Regional Hospital Board on the 30th June, 1968 and, in
conformity with the policy already described above, no new consultant was appointed to cover the Ealing
clinics. From the 1st July all children requiring ear, nose and throat consultant services were referred to
their general practitioners or with their consent, to a hospital ear, nose and throat department.
CHILD GUIDANCE
The Consultant Psychiatrist to the Child Guidance Centre is Dr. Portia Holman M. D. , F. R. C. P. ,
D. P. M. who is, together with her full time Registrar and part-time clinical assistant, an officer of the
North West Metropolitan Hospital Board. The remaining staff are council officers of the Education
Department. The service is conducted from the main clinic in Madeley Road, Ealing and from three
sub clinics at Avenue Road, Acton; Northolt Grange, Northolt; and Villiers Road, South all.
Details of the work carried out during the year are as follows:-
Referrals
Number of cases on waiting list at December, 1967 105
Number of cases referred to Centre during 1968 435
Number of cases seen by Psychiatrists during 1968 299
Number of cases seen by other Officers 59
Cases withdrawn 85
Number of cases awaiting at December, 1968 97
Recommendations by Psychiatrists
Treatment or remedial teaching 164
Placed in residential school for maladjusted 34
Placed in day school for maladjusted
Aston 8
Newlands 20 28
Placement in residential schools for the maladjusted
Number of children awaiting placement at 31st December, 1967 10
Number of children recommended during the year 31
Children placed 34
Awaiting placement at 31st December, 1968 7
40.