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The following tables give details of visits paid, and clinic sessions
attended by Health Visitors/School Nurses during the year:—
1. Visits.
To pupils, found at school medical examinations to
require observation or treatment 49
To educationally subnormal children 168
To verminous cases 64
To infectious or contagious cases 27
To miscellaneous cases (arising from school medical
inspections at request of Head Teacher, etc.) 87
2. Sessions attended.
For school medical inspections 401
Hygiene inspections 96
General medical clinics 356
Health teaching 133
Vision testing 9
Immunisation 62
Freedom from infection inspections 10
CHILD GUIDANCE SERVICE
1. General
The work of the Service has continued on the same lines as
before, dealing with a variety of difficulties at varying levels of complexity
in children, not only with respect to themselves, but also in
relationship with family and school.
2. Staffing
The position at Wimbledon has remained satisfactory apart from
the loss of the part-time services of Mrs. I. Windebank, Psychiatric
Social Worker. The position at the Mitcham Child Guidance Clinic
was affected not only by the leaving, at the end of November, 1969, of
Mrs. Windebank who worked part-time also at that Clinic, but by the
absence for some months of a psychiatrist, following Dr. Lomas's
departure at the end of March. Dr. Lorna Brierley acted as locum
until Christmas, 1969. The Mitcham Clinic staff has also been augmented
by the services of Mr. Cordell, Psychotherapist, since October,
1969.
3. Remedial Classes
The three remedial classes based at Manor House Nursery School,
Malmesbury Primary School and Lonesome Junior School continue to
function satisfactorily.
4. Placement for Maladjusted Children
There is a very serious difficulty in finding suitable residential
schools for those children considered to need the kind of help provided
by such placement. It should be pointed out that perhaps a third of
this number would have been able to stay at home, if there had been
available a day-school for maladjusted children in the older age group.
A school for the maladjusted is included in the Authority's Development
plan.
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