[Report 1961] / School Medical Officer of Health, Kent County Council.

  • Kent (England). County Council. n 50045898.
Date:
1961
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Credit: [Report 1961] / School Medical Officer of Health, Kent County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The 573 cases were discharged from the clinics for the following reasons:— Satisfactory result following appointments, including those whose general condition was such as to prevent complete normality of speech ... ... ... ... 266 Little, if any, change following treatment ... 11 Treatment incomplete owing to family leaving the district or for other reason—in many cases considerable progress has been made ... ... ... 66 Treatment continued elsewhere; for example, the child with hearing loss transferred to a school for the deaf or partially deaf; the spastic child transferred to the school for physically handicapped, etc. ... ... ... ... ... 17 Consultation only, followed by appropriate recommendation ... ... ... ... ... 20 Found to have improved when first seen by speech therapist ... ... ... ... ... 44 Reported to have improved prior to appointments being offered or when appointments were offered ... ... 54 Investigation incomplete—left district or proved unco-operative or investigation incomplete for other reason ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 4 Appointments offered but never kept; no reason given or circumstances made attendance impossible ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 29 Treatment arranged elsewhere prior to appointments being offered ... ... ... ... 18 Left school or district prior to appointments being offered ... 44 573 The total figure includes 44 adults sent by the South East Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board, of whom 15 were discharged during the year, 27 will continue attendance at the clinics in 1962, and 2 were on the waiting lists at the end of 1961. Regular and consistent work has been maintained as far as possible in the seventeen clinics and in the special schools in the County, despite certain difficulties caused by resignation and changes of staff. The Gillingham clinic was closed during the first nine months of the year as there were no applicants to fill two vacancies there, but re-opened in September, 1961, when two new therapists took up their appointments. In order to improve services in the Tunbridge Wells-Sevenoaks area, it was arranged during 1961 that clinics should be held in Tunbridge Wells and Sevenoaks instead of in Tunbridge Wells and Tonbridge. The year ended with a full establishment of 14 full-time and two part-time speech therapists. Students from the Speech Therapy Training Schools in London have received practical experience and training at the Crayford, Sidcup and Bromley clinics. Lectures have been given to student speech therapists, student health visitors, medical students and voluntary organisations such as the Red Cross. Visitors to the clinics have included doctors taking the D.P.H. course, physiotherapists, nurses and midwives in training, speech therapists from other countries as well as speech therapists training in this country. The following table lists the clinics, the number of sessions held and the waiting lists at each clinic at the end of 1961:— Clinic Session Number on Waiting List at end of December, 1961 Ashford 8 77 Beckenham 10 21 Bexley, Murchison Avenue 4 19 Bromley 15 119 Canterbury 9 28 Chatham 4 58 Chislehurst 2 50 Crayford 12 138 Deal 6 8 Folkestone 10 65 Gillingham... 20 6 Gravesend ... 2 92 Maidstone 6 83 Margate 9 54 Sevenoaks 2 82 Sidcup 8 44 Tunbridge Wells ... 4 43