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Specialists during the year and 3,372 physiotherapy treatments
given.
The service at the Harold Hill Health Centre has had to be
discontinued owing to the resignation of the physiotherapist and
it has not been possible to obtain a replacement by the end of
the year.
Speech Clinics
Speech therapy is provided at each of the Council's clinics
and the Speech Therapists also make regular visits to the
schools for Educationally Sub-Normal Children and to the Belford
Junior Training Centre.
621 children received speech therapy during the year, including
257 new referrals and a total of 8,718 treatments wete
given. At the end of the year 276 children were under treatment.
Expansion of the Speech Therapy Service has been hindered
by shortage of staff and by inadequate accommodation at some
of the clinics. It is hoped that the staffing situation will improve
in the near future and the proposed alterations to Upminster,
Hornchurch and Elm Park clinics should do much to overcome
the accommodation problem.
Dental Clinics
12,801 children were inspected in school by the School
Dental Officers during the year and treatment was offered to all
children found to require it. A total of 15,649 treatments were
carried out at the Council's dental clinics.
The Chief Dental Officer's report on the School Dental
Service appears on page 41.
Child Guidance and School Psychological Service
The Child Guidance and School Psychological Services are
provided by the Education Department under the direction of the
Medical Director, Dr. J. Vincenzi, and his staff of consultant
psychiatrists who are provided by the Regional Hospital Board.
The Child Guidance Centre is situated at Raphael House;Western
Road, Romford.
During 1966 there were 379 new referrals to the Consultant
Psychiatrists as against 258 for the nine months from April to
December 1965, and the increased referral rate caused an
extension of the waiting period for the first psychiatric
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