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Fourteen cases of psychological disorder in children were
referred to the clinic. Nine of these were sent to the London
Child Guidance Clinic, the West End Hospital Child Guidance
Clinic, or the East End Child Guidance Clinic, either for intelligence
testing, or for more specialised treatment than is possible
at our clinic because of the absence of a social worker and an
intelligence testing department. Four cases of congenital mental
defect of such an order as to require institutional treatment were
seen and appropriate instructions were given to the relatives.
It is interesting to note that in six cases sent to us the
trouble was physical, and these patients were referred to general
hospitals for pathological investigation and treatment. We have
heard from three of these patients, and they have derived considerable
benefit from the treatment of their physical condition.
Appended is a summary of the cases dealt with.
Work of the West Ham Nerve Clinic.
Types of mental illness.
Psychoses—
Schizophrenia 6
Paranoia 2
Cyclothymia 14
Cerebral arteriopathy 2
Epilepsy 3
General paralysis of the insane 2
— 29
Psycho neuroses,—
Anxiety states 4
Compulsion 2
Hysteria 2
Neurasthenia 4
Sex abnormality 1
Various neuroses and organic states 14
— 27
Behaviour problems and maladjusted children—
Behaviour disorders 3
Morbid fears 2
Tantrums 3
Eneuresis 2
Congenital mental defect 4
—
Total 70
Cases recommended to the mental hospital as
voluntary patients 23
Actually admitted as voluntary patients 18
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