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Bromley 1971
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bromley]
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Number of new patients taken on for treatment during each
month: —
January 6; February 9; March 9; April 3; May 7; June 9;
July 8; August 3; September 8; October 7; November 6;
December 3.
Number of Psychiatric Interviews:
| Quarter to 31st March, 1971 | 178 |
| Quarter to 30th June, 1971 | 166 |
| Quarter to 30th September, 1971 | 158 |
| Quarter to 31st December, 1971 | 178 |
| 680 | |
| Number of Social Workers Interviews: | |
| Quarter to 31st March, 1971 | 227 |
| Quarter to 30th June, 1971 | 214 |
| Quarter to 30th September, 1971 | 166 |
| Quarter to 31st December, 1971 | 221 |
| 828 |
Number of Home Visits by Psychiatric Social
Worker 55
Number of School Visits:
Psychiatric Social Worker 8
Educational Psychologists No figures available
The Social Workers made 21 visits to different outside
agencies.
School Psychological Service
I am grateful to Mr. D. R. Barraclough, Chief Education
Officer, for the following report on the School Psychological
Service: —
Looking back, this has been a challenging year, marked in
the summer term by a historical event—the transfer of responsibility
to Education for the severely handicapped. Statistically,
their number form a very small group. Educationally, they form
a somewhat unknown quantity. They seem to require abundant
resources and need to be more precisely understood. They have
been made welcome; but for the transfer of responsibility to be
meaningful, education would have to go beyond merely incorporating
the severely handicapped within its own framework. It