London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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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

Enfield 1971

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Enfield]

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SCHOOL HEALTH

Table: Table 53 Speech therapyClinics and special schools

Table 53 Speech therapy

Clinics and special schools

Total attendances2,706
New cases104
Children under treatment or observation for the following: Retarded speech and language development100
Articulation defects241
Stammer37378
Discharged: Cured52
Improved16
Defaulted19
Transferred elsewhere for treatment or left district19106
Table 54 Child guidance clinic
Number of individual children seen by psychiatrist:
New cases (including 9 pre-school children)162
Follow-ups39
Annual revisions21
Treatment5
Total attendances for diagnosis and treatment by Psychiatrist426
Number of individual children treated by psychotherapist35
Total attendances for treatment by psychotherapist742