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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 1956

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Walthamstow]

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Individual cases seen307
Number referred to clinic13
(d) Play Therapists
Cases treated15
Treatment interviews306
(e) Psychiatric Social Workers
Interviews at clinic730
Interviews elsewhere12
(f) Waiting List
Cases for diagnosis41
Awaiting treatment4
(g) Total cases treated during the year151

Table: TABLES II and IIIAnalysis of Problems referred and Cases Diagnosed

TABLES II and III

Analysis of Problems referred and Cases Diagnosed

ReferredDiagnosed
I.Nervous disorders, e.g. fears, depressions, apathy, excitability2727
II.Habit disorders and physical symptoms, e.g. enuresis, speech disorders, sleep disturbances, tics, fits, etc.3011
III.Behaviour disorders, e.g. unmanageable, tempers, stealing, lying, sex problems, etc.4219
IV.Educational, e.g. backwardness, failure to concentrate111
V.No basic disturbance of child, i.e. mainly parental over'anxiety—1

Table: TABLE IVAnalysis 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 treatment17
Improved after partial service, i.e. before diagnosis13
Diagnosis and advice only18
Interrupted, e.g. on parents' initiative28
Closed for miscellaneous causes (removed from area, placement in E.S.N. School, etc.)7