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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 1962

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Walthamstow]

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Table: (V) SPEECH THERAPY

(V) SPEECH THERAPY

High St. ClinicWingfield House Clinic
Number in attendance at beginning of year7960
Number under observation at beginning of year3427
New cases4363
Re-admitted12
Transfers from other clinics - Within County12
Cases discharged - cured3656
improved22
defaulted22
transferred to other clinics44
left district2-
left school2-
Cases in attendance at end of year6150
Cases under observation at end of year4840
Total attendances during year17542145

Table: Analysis of Defects

Analysis of Defects

Stammering and cluttering4117
Dyslalia11065
Stammering and dyslalia-8
Delayed language development234
Cleft palate speech--
Voice defects-8
Speech defect due to deafness1-
Defects of neurological origin212

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(vi) CONVALESCENT HOME TREATMENT -
Number of children sent away for
convalescent holidays 19

Table: (Vii) TUBERCULOSIS -

(Vii) TUBERCULOSIS -

BoysGirls
No. examined for the first time at the Chest Clinic:-
Referred by School Medical Officers1410
Referred by private practitioners3426
Examined as contacts58