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when actually on the premises to see immediately
every child in need of treatment, rather than to place
on a separate school waiting list.)
It remains to be seen whether or not treatment
in the schools is a true expedient.
There have been several visitors to the
speech clinics in the past few years, notably by
student health visitors, and we like to think that this
accounts, in part at least, for the excellent relationships
growing up between this and other departments."
The defects treated were as follows:-
Stammer 66
Dyslalia 151
Retarded speech and language 13
Hearing losses 4
Cleft Palate 8
Dysarthria 1
Neurological
Treatment not needed 4
Others 19
82 children of school age were discharged from the
Clinics during the year. In 49 cases the speech was normal.
Of the remaining 33 cases, 7 left the district, 4 improved,
5 ceased to attend, 2 left school, 5 were referred elsewhere,
4 did not require treatment, 6 refused further treatment.
SCHOOL DENTAL SERVICE.
Mr. E. V. Haigh, Area Dental Officer, reports as
follows:-
"The dental services available to school
children in the Ilford Area increased considerably
during 1961. At the beginning of the year there
were only four part-time dental surgeons doing 14
sessions per week which with my services on school
dentistry made an equivalent strength of two fulltime
Dental Officers. This shortage however improved
slowly during the year and by the end of 1961
we had eight part-time dental officers doing 29 sessions
per week. This means that we have four surgeries