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Inter-Services Committee on problems of adolescence
During the year an inter-services Committee was set up to deal with problems of adolescence,
under the direction of the Medical Officer of Health, the Chief Education Officer and the Children's
Officer, and including representatives of the Police, the Probation Department and Marriage Guidance
Councils as well as the local authority services. One objective of this Committee is to publish a
booklet about the services available for young people in the Borough.
Other Medical Inspections
The following are the numbers of special inspections and re-inspections carried out during 1968.
A special inspection is one which is carried out at the special request of a parent, doctor, nurse or
teacher, and is usually carried out at a school advice clinic.
Number of special inspections 2,644
Number of re-inspections 908
An analysis of the defects found at special inspections to require treatment or observation will
be found in the Appendix to this report.
Medical Treatment
In the Appendix to this report details are given of treatment (excluding uncleanliness and dental
defects) of pupils attending maintained primary and secondary schools (including nursery and special
schools), whether provided directly by the Council or arranged through other agencies.
School Advice Clinics
These clinics continue to deal with the follow-up of defects found at routine medical inspections
and selective medical examinations, and with some minor ailments and problems brought up by
parents. Plans have now been formulated for offering a full medical examination to school children
who are new entrants to the country, including any who have been out of the country for a year or
more and who have now returned.
Orthopaedic Clinics
The orthopaedic clinics at Lordship Lane, Tottenham, and Weston Park, Hornsey, have continued
to function as in previous years, fortnightly sessions being held in each case.
I am indebted to Mr. E.H. Hambly, consulting orthopaedic surgeon to the Lordship Lane Clinic,
for the following report:-
"The Lordship Lane Clinics have been fully attended as in previous years. The most striking
things about these Clinics are the extremely well turned out children especially their clothes and
their manners. I am equally impressed by the fact that so many fathers attend.
We have families of practically every race on earth who attend these Clinics regularly and I am
again impressed by the way they get on with each other and appear to be assimilated into the life of
Tottenham in a remarkable way. Another thing which has impressed me is the standard of competence
of these children from other lands as there are many who appear to be in our Grammar Schools who
obviously will find jobs in the various professions in later life and should be a great asset to this
country or their home countries if they return to them."
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