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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 1957
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Walthamstow]
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"The reduction in the work of the clinic is due to the lesser
number of sessions worked by the psychiatrists. There was an
unfortunate series of absences owing to illness among the staff,
and this, coupled with Dr. Casimir's resignation, led to a loss of
21 psychiatric sessions."
The following tables show the work of the clinic during the
year. Figures for Walthamstow cases only are shown:—
TABLE I
Analysis of Figures for 1957
| Number of cases referred to the clinic | 83 |
| Number of cases diagnosed at the clinic | 45 |
| (a) Psychiatrists | |
| Diagnostic interviews | 47 |
| Cases taken on for treatment | 21 |
| Treatment interviews | 252 |
| Other interviews | 2 |
| Total number of psychiatric sessions (including Chingford cases) | 148 |
| (b) Psychologists | |
| Clinic cases tested | 38 |
| Cases given remedial education | 15 |
| Treatment interviews (remedial education) | 238 |
| School visits on behalf of clinic cases | 25 |
| Other interviews at clinic | 21 |
| (c) School Psychological Service | |
| Individual cases seen | 214 |
| Number referred to clinic | 7 |
| (d) Play Therapists | |
| Cases treated | 14 |
| Treatment interviews | 264 |
| (e) Psychiatric Social Workers | |
| Interviews at clinic | 642 |
| Interviews elsewhere | 10 |
| (f) 'Waiting List | |
| Cases for diagnosis | 56 |
| Awaiting treatment | 3 |
| (g) Total cases treated during the year | 115 |