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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 1958
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Walthamstow]
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TABLE I Analysis of Figures for 1958
| Number of cases referred to the clinic. | 83 |
| Number of cases diagnosed at the clinic | 83 |
| Diagnostic interviews | 86 |
| Cases taken on for observation and treatment | 34 |
| Treatment interviews | 241 |
| Other interviews | 1 |
| Total number of psychiatric sessions (including Ching-ford cases) | 167 |
| Clinic cases tested | 72 |
| Cases given remedial education | 13 |
| Treatment interviews (remedial education) | 281 |
| School visits on behalf of clinic cases | 16 |
| Other interviews at clinic | 32 |
| Other interviews outside clinic | 47 |
| (c) School Psychological Service— | |
| Individual cases seen | 376 |
| Number referred to clinic | 10 |
| Cases treated | 16 |
| Treatment interviews | 148 |
| Interviews at Clinic | 590 |
| Interviews elsewhere | 15 |
| Cases for diagnosis (by doctors) | 46 |
| Waiting treatment | — |
| 103 | |