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(d) Reported by Medical Officer,, parent and/or school to
have improved and, therefore, investigatory appointments
at Speech Therapy Clinic cancelled 1
(e) Appointments offered, but not kept as parents or patients
unwilling to attend, or attendance impossible owing
to other commitments, hospitalisation, etc. 1
(f) Started work or left district prior to appointment being
made 2
Patients, whose cases were closed during the year, suffered from
stammer, dyslalia and retarded speech development associated with
severe mental retardation.
VERMIN AND UNCLEANLINESS INSPECTION.
The number of children infested with vermin continued to be
extremely low, and from a total of 18,681 routine inspections carried
out by the School Nurses, only sixteen children were found to be
infested, with a further 111 children showing minor evidence of
uncleanliness.
The sixteen children infested are the "regulars," and if these
could be eliminated from the returns, the routine cleanliness inspections
could be considerably reduced and so save much of a skilled
nurse's time.
Parents are advised on the advance in the treatment of infestation
by modern insecticides.
EXCEPTIONAL AND HANDICAPPED CHILDREN.
Thirty-four attendances were made at the special clinic held at the
Municipal Offices for exceptional and handicapped children.
There are, at the present time, sixty known educationally subnormal
and physically handicapped children in the area. Details of
these children are:—
Not in
School.
In residential schools for E.S.N. children 4
Attending day schools for E.S.N. children 10 5
In residential schools for blind and partially sighted children 4
In residential schools for deaf and partially deaf children 3
Attending day schools for deaf and partially deaf children 4
In residential premises for physically handicapped children 5 7
In residential premises for delicate children 6 3
In residential premises for epileptic children 1
In residential premises for mal-adjusted children 6 2
There are twenty-five known ineducable children in the area,
thirteen of this number being in Institutions and twelve at home.