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Miss Barrett Full-time. School Clinics. Junior Training
Centre and Special Education Units.
Miss Osborne Full-time. School Clinics. Ethel Davis P.H.
School and Special Education Units.
Mrs. Pearce 3 sessions. Mayesbrook Clinic and Becontree
School.
Mrs. Pretious Full-time. School Clinics. Ethel Davis P.H.
School.
Mrs. Tingey 6 sessions. Mayesbrook Clinic and St.Vincent's
School.
In January 1967 we welcomed Miss Barrett to fill a fulltime
post vacant for 8 months. This enabled us to re-open
Manford Way Speech Clinic and resume the session at Osborne
Mall, the Junior Training Centre. Later in the year, a former
Redbridge speech therapist, Mrs. Pearce, returned for 3 sessions,
working at Mayesbrook Clinic and Becontree School.
This increase in the establishment allowed us to give 3
sessions to the Observation Unit and 2 to the Junior
Training Centre. However, we feel that the Training Centre
is still inadequately covered by these 2 sessions on one day.
There is a need for more intensive treatment of all severely
speech handicapped children whether they are receiving normal
or special education. At the present time this is possible only
for those who suffer a speech defect associated with a physical
handicap and attend the Ethel Davis P.H. School.
School Denial
Service
Mr. E. V. Haigh, Principal School Dental Officer reports
as follows:—
The School Dental Service continued on similar lines to
the previous year. Our aim to inspect and treat as many
children as possible and promote dental health whenever
possible, owing to the resignation of a full-time dental officer
and only able to replace by a part-time officer, the total
sessions worked in the Borough dropped by 249, giving a
percentage drop of 10% over the year. This difficulty of
obtaining suitable dental officers is a nationwide problem,
this is especially so for the north and east of London.
Since February 1967 a Dental Auxiliary has been employed
to work under supervision by the Senior Dental Officer at
Kenwood Clinic. I am pleased to say that the Dental Auxiliary,
Miss Burns, has been a great help to the dental service. Her
clinical work has been very satisfactory and she has