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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
Walthamstow 1947
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Walthamstow]
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TABLE 3
Analysis of cases closed during 1947
(including cases referred in previous years)
| Adjusted after treatment | 5 |
| Improved after treatment | 9 |
| No change after treatment | 3 |
| Interrupted due to non-co-operation | 6 |
| Placed away from home | 5 |
| Approved school placing | 1 |
| Diagnosed and closed | 9 |
| Spontaneously adjusted after partial service | 3 |
| Miscellaneous causes and removal | 3 |
| Total | 44 |
TABLE 4
Number of interviews during 1947—Psychiatrists and Psychiatric Social Workers
| Psychiatrists— | |
| Diagnostic interviews | 99 |
| Treatment interviews | 438 |
| Group — 4 children | 10 |
| Psychiatric Social Workers— | |
| Interviews | 722 |
| Home visits | 174 |
| Others | 44 |
| Waiting List, December 31st, 1947— | |
| Diagnostic | 49 |
| Treatment | 4 |
Comment on Figures for 1947
It will be seen from the notes of the cases dealt with during
1947 that more time was spent in treating individual children than
in seeing new cases for diagnosis than in 1946.
This was not due to the fact that the rate of referral had
naturally slowed, but because there were so many cases awaiting
treatment from 1946 that a determined effort was made to deal with
this aspect of the work.
The diagnostic waiting list throughout the year remained at a
disturbingly high level and towards the end of the year the waiting
list was closed to all but the most urgent requests for advice and
help.