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develop. The rather long waiting list for Child Guidance service
should not prejudice referral, since any improvement or spontaneous
adjustment can be reported if it occurs. On the other hand, it
plainly limits the possibilities of psychiatric help, when referral
is postponed to the later years of school life.
Remedial education in basic subjects has been given by the
psychologist to 13 children during the year, with a total of 230
sessions.
During the Spring term a student psychologist, in training at
Birmingham University spent a month at the clinic and did some
testing in schools.
The psychologist gave informal talks to several Parent Teacher
Associations, and to groups of mothers.
EAR, NOSE AND THROAT CLINIC:
The weekly Ear. Nose and Throat Clinic has continued under the
clinical charge of Dr. A. Cammock, M.B., B.Ch. ,D.L.O. Mrs. Leach,
S.R.N., has carried out audiometry tests on 289 children
and of these 89 were referred to the clinic for specialist opinion.
EYE CLINIC:
This clinic continues under the clinical charge of Dr. Hilton
Ho.
The services of a dispensing optician and an orthoptist are
available to patients.
ORTHOPAEDIC CLINIC,
Mr. G. Rigby Jones, who had been in charge of the Orthopaedic
Clinic since 1953. retired during the year, and Mr. K. Dalliwall,
Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, was appointed in charge of the
clinic.
PAEDIATRIC CLINIC:
The clinic contined under the clinical care of Dr. Elchon
Hinden. Paediatrician to Whipps Cross Hospital, who reports as
follows
The work of the Walthamstow Paediatric Clinic has proceeded
along the accustomed lines. The majority of the children have been
referred either from the School Health Service, or from the
Maternity & Child Welfare Clinics, a few are sent direct by their
family doctors. All the patients are seen by appointment, and the
clinic is usually fully booked. This year I would like to discuss
a subject which is not of immediate interest to the school health
service, though it may well become so in later years. I refer to
the terrible damage done by Thalidomide to the development of the
unborn child.
The calamities caused by this drug have focussed attention on
the whole subject of congenital deformity. The risk of a pregnancy