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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 1953

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Walthamstow]

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Individual cases seen221
No. referred to clinic12
No. of school visits107
(d) Play Therapists.
Treatment interviews186
(e) Psychiatric Social Workers.
Interviews at clinic636
Interviews elsewhere22
(f) Waiting list at 31.12.53.
Cases for diagnosis43
Awaiting treatment—
Cases suspended—

Table: TABLES II and III.Analysis of Problems Referred and Cases Diagnosed

TABLES II and III.

Analysis of Problems Referred and Cases Diagnosed

ReferredDiagnosed
I. Nervous disorders, e.g., fears; depression; apathy; excitability1712
II. Habit disorders and physical symptoms, e.g., enuresis; speech disorders; sleep disturbances; tics; fits; etc.2414
III. Behaviour disorders, e.g., unmanageable; tempers; stealing; lying; sex problems, etc.3914
IV. Educational, e.g., backwardness; failure to concentrate132
V. No basic disturbance of child, i.e., mainly parental over-anxiety—2
9344

Table: TABLE IV.Analysis of Cases Closed during the Year(including cases Referred in previous years)

TABLE IV.

Analysis of Cases Closed during the Year

(including cases Referred in previous years)

Improved and recovered after treatment19
Improved after partial service, i.e., before diagnosis7
Diagnosis and advice only7
Interrupted, e.g., on parents' initiative22
Closed for miscellaneous causes (removed from area, placement at E.S.N. School, etc.)3
58