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42.
Two student psychologists have worked at the clinic, as
part of their practical training.
The following figures give a summarised picture of the
work done during the year.
Number of children tested (I.Q.) in school 300
in clinic 43
348
Number of children referred to C.G.C. by Ed. Psych. 8
Number,of children given remedial coaching at C.G.C. 7
Number of remedial coaching sessions 228
Number of visits to schools 164
Number of parents interviewed 45
PAEDIATRIC CLINIC
The clinic continued under the clinical care of Dr.
Elchon Hinden, Paediatrician to Whipps Cross Hospital, who
reports as follows:-
Of recent years, immunisation against infection, and
treatment by antibiotics once infection has started, have
between them reduced the menace of infectious disease to
trifling proportions. The ebbing tide of these illnesses
reveals all the more clearly the importance of congenital
disease in child health. With few and insignificant exceptions
we still are quite unable to control the incidence of
this affliction there is even evidence that disorders hither
to though to be acquired (e.g. 'geographical tongue' and
funnel chest) are in fact congenital, and fully establishedthough
perhaps not manifest at birth.
The incidence of many of the most severe deformities has
been worked out, and the over-all chance of producing a
defective baby is 1:40, twenty-five babies out of a thousand
bring heart-ache, not happiness, into the family. This is
quite a high figure but is is a hazard that faces every
couple begetting a baby, from the highest to the lowest, and
as yet we can do nothing about it. It is, however, a very
real solace to the stunned parents to assure them that the
baby's sickness is not their fault; it is a misfortune which,
like the thunderbolt, can fall anywhere. The catastrophe is
in no way due to anything they have done or not done.
An inevitable question, after the birth of an affected
baby, is whether the family should risk another. Provided
that the defect in question is not produced by a dominant
mutation (such as achondroplasia) when the risk is fa, or by