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assistant medical officers and general medical practitioners, or parents may enlist
the help of the clinic directly. The types of cases dealt with in the clinic, which
include children who are maladjusted, present problems of psychosis, neurosis, brain
damage, and character disorder.
Owing to a continued staff shortage, there is still a considerable delay for
diagnostic interview and subsequent therapy.
In conjunction with the centre and clinic, there is a Special Selection Unit at
Chase Side School for children aged eight to eleven years who have shown gross
emotional instability. They are admitted on the recommendation of the psychiatrist.
These children have behaviour problems which make it impossible for them to be
taught in association with ordinary children and an endeavour is made to assess
their potentialities and needs so that they may be placed in a suitable school. There
is also, at Chase Side School, a special full-time class for children up to eleven years
of age, who have not been formally ascertained. This allows them to be taught in
a small group, an arrangement found to be of great benefit. There are remedial
classes at Eastfield and Croyland Schools and at the Child Guidance Clinic for
special tuition for children who have specific difficulties such as reading. They
attend in groups for two half-days a week.
Recuperative Holidays
Recuperative holidays of two to four weeks' duration are arranged under Section
48 of the Education Act, 1944, and arrangements were made for ten children to
go away.
Summer holidays were arranged by the British Epileptic Association for children
who have epilepsy and one boy was able to have a holiday through this scheme.
(See Statistical Tables 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55 and 56)
DENTAL SERVICE
Under Section 48 of the Education Act, 1944, it is the duty of the local education
authority to provide medical inspection at appropriate intervals for pupils in
attendance at any school or county college maintained by them, and every local
education authority shall have power to provide for such inspection of senior pupils
in attendance at any other educational establishment maintained by them.
Medical inspection, which is compulsory for such pupils, is deemed to include
dental inspection.
Under Section 4 of the Education (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1953, the
local education authority has duties and powers in regard to the provision of free
dental treatment, similar to those for medical treatment, but dental treatment may
only be provided by the authority through persons employed by the authority or
under arrangements made with the hospital service and not through the general
dental service.
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