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SPECIALISTS SERVICES
The Orthopaedic and Ophthalmic Sessions at the Harold Hill
Health Centre and Marks Road Clinic continued in co-operation
with the Regional Hospital Board.
Cases dealt with were as follows:—
Ophthalmic Clinics
Conditions treated.
External and other eye diseases 1
Errors of refraction (including
squint) 1,047
1,048
The number of children for whom spectacles were prescribed
was 509.
Orthopaedic Clinics
Number receiving treatment 964
Total attendances at Specialists
Clinics 342
Total attendances at Physiotherapy
Sessions 4,008
Vaccination Against Tuberculosis
B.C.G. vaccination was again offered to all 13 year old school
children and the statistics to this service are as follows:—
Number tuberculin tested after parents'
consent had been received 1,723
Positive result 71
Negative result 1,525
Number who received B.C.G. Vaccination 1,525
HANDICAPPED PUPILS
Special Educational Treatment
Havering Grange School was opened in September, 1962. The
school is designed to cater for 100 educationally sub-normal children
but owing to staffing difficulties it was not possible to admit more
than half this number. The first entrants consisted largely of Romford
children transferred from special schools in neighbouring areas
several newly ascertained children were also admitted.
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