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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

Leyton 1949

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Leyton]

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When the mother herself is unable to bring the child, the
students attending at the Speech Clinic for training have been
bringing the children to and from schools. Occasionally an adult
helper from the infants' school will bring a child when the students
are absent because of examinations, or in holiday periods.
It had been hoped that when the Local Education Authority
set up its own transport system that this was one of the services
they would cover. It seems that it should be within the scope of
this service to take children to and from the Speech Clinic so that
they lose as little time as possible from school, but up to the present
the Education Office has not been able to arrange it.
Perhaps when this service expands to its full extent the Speech
Clinic will be sympathetically considered.
CHILD GUIDANCE.
Report of the Educational Psychologist to the Forest and
Leyton Divisions (Miss M. Marshall), 1949.

Table: The distribution of these 263 children, according to age and sex, is as follows :—

The distribution of these 263 children, according to age and sex, is as follows :—

InfantJuniorSecondary
GirlsBoysGirlsBoysGirlsBoys
Leyton271850511
Forest72129512537

Table: Of the actual children referred to the Child Guidance Centre, the proportions are still more heavily weighted on the boys' side.

Of the actual children referred to the Child Guidance Centre, the proportions are still more heavily weighted on the boys' side.

GirlsBoys
Leyton725
Forest1127