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Child Guidance Service:
Referral of children remains as previously, i.e. to
Walthamstow Child Guidance Centre except for those residing in
Epping Urban and Rural districts, who attend Harlow Child Guidance
Centre.
Speech Therapy:
A summary of the work carried out in the Chigwell Urban
District is shown below:-
Number of centres: 3
" " clinical sessions held: 398
" " individual children treated: 129
" " visits to schools and homes
(i) for treatment –
(ii) " consultation –
Number of attendances at clinic: 1,656
" discharged -
(a) cured: 45
(b) unsuccessful: 1
" failed to continue treatment: –
" refused treatment: 2
" under treatment as at 31.12.64 71
" on waiting list as at " –
School Dental Service:
The favourable results of the improvement in the staffing
position, which occurred in 1962 have been maintained ever since.
Over this period the number of teeth filled has increased
while the number extracted because of caries has decreased, so
that now 39 permanent teeth are being saved for every one removed
on account of dental decay. This is nearly twice as many as in
1961. The corresponding figure for temporary teeth is 3.5
saved to 1 extracted and, although this figure is also twice that
for 1961, there is obviously room for further improvement. A
major difficulty is that many of these teeth are already badly
decayed by the time children start school and so come under the
care of the School Dental Service. It is felt that this
position could be helped by further efforts to bring home to
the mothers of these pre-school children the need to take them
for regular four-monthly examination to clinics or general
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