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Children
Expectant Nursing under School
Mothers Mothers age
14. Prophylactic treatment and other
operations:
Impressions 13 24 —
Bites 7 8 —
Try-ins 2 5 —
Easing 3 15 —
Polishing — 1 —
Gum Treatments — — —
Syringing — 3 —
15. Number of treatments included above
in 6 or 14, carried out by Oral
Hygienist 9 6 —
The services of the Dental Hygienist were available on one
half-day per week."
(d) Tonsils and Adenoids.—Children are treated at various
hospitals.
(e) Ophthalmic Defects and Minor Ailments.—Children are
given treatment either at the School Clinics or by special appointment.
(f) Child Guidance.—The following report is contributed by
Dr. Helen Gillespie, Senior Psychiatrist at the Walthamstow Child
Guidance Clinic:—
"The psychiatrist has discontinued her special attendances at
the West Avenue Health Services Clinic in view of the small number
of patients referred and owing to pressure of work at the Child
Guidance Clinic. We are, however, always prepared to give priority
to any child under five referred from the Maternity and Child Welfare
Clinics, and will be glad to see them at short notice. I would
again like to urge early reference of parents and young children in
need of psychiatric help. In this way we can sometimes prevent the
problems from becoming intractable."
(g) Pediatric Clinic.—The fortnightly clinic, under the charge
of Dr. Elchon Hinden, Pædiatrician to Whipps Cross Hospital,
continued during 1957 and 38 children under five years of age were
seen.
Dr. Hinden's report on the work of this clinic is included in
the Annual Report of the Borough School Medical Officer.
The following details are given in regard to the children under
five years who attended the clinic during 1957:—