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 1972

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Enfield]

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Table: SCHOOL HEALTH

SCHOOL HEALTH

SchoolChildren treatedTreatments given
Durants School10680
Hazelbury Open Air School592,315
Waverley School12840
(51) Speech therapy: clinics and special schools
Total attendances2,638
New cases106
Children under treatment or observation for the following:
Retarded speech and language development119
Articulation defects303
Stammer32454
Discharged:
Cured48
Improved46
Defaulted13
Transferred elsewhere for treatment or left district10117
(52) Child guidance clinic
Individual children seen by psychiatrist:
New cases (including seven pre-school children)139
Cases followed up41
Annual revisions7
Treatment4
Total attendances for diagnosis and treatment by psychiatrist385
Individual children treated by psychotherapists42
Total attendances for treatment by psychotherapists771