Annual report for the year 1958 / North Wales Mental Hospital Management Committee.

  • North Wales Mental Hospital Management Committee.
Date:
[1959?]
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Credit: Annual report for the year 1958 / North Wales Mental Hospital Management Committee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (2) Causes of referral. The variety of difficulties for which children are referred may be gathered from Table 5, where they are—somewhat arbitrarily—sub-divided into those with a “ clinical ” and an “ educational ” bias. Only those children who were first examined during 1958, and whose in¬ vestigation was completed during1 the year, are included (i.e., not all those referred). The main symptoms as stated by the referring agencies are listed. Table 5. (a) Behaviour, difficult and aggressive (39), beyond control (5) . 44 (b) Stealing (16), stealing with difficult behaviour (6), wandering (1) . 23 (c) Larceny (4), sexual misbehaviour (3) . 7 (d) Enuresis (16), enuresis with other symptoms (7), soiling (4), soiling and enuresis (5), undesirable habits (2) . 34 (e) Temper outbursts (2), temper outbursts and moodiness (2), severe nailbiting (1) , adolescen-t difficulties (2) . 7 (f) Sleepwalking (1), night terrors (2), Habit spasms (4) . 7 (g) Nervous and hysterical (4), moody and irritable (2), rigid and withdrawn (2), fretful and depressed (3), attacks of panic (2) . 13 (hi Various bodily complaints, no adequate physical cause found: Poor vision, double vision (2), vomiting, constipation (2), blackouts, walking towards left side (2) 6 (i) Asthma (4), anorexia (1), alopecia (3), hyperemesis (1), skin lesions (2) , obesity (1) ... . 12 (j) Stammer (5), retarded speech development (4), speech difficulties with other symptoms (3) . ... . 12 (k) Reluctance to attend school (4), failure to go to school (9), extreme nervous¬ ness and other symptoms in relation to school attendance (6), truanting (1), truanting with other symptoms (2) ... . 22 (l) Attempted suicide, suicidal gesture (3), grossly disturbed, peculiar (4), Schizo¬ phrenia (3) . 10 (m) Scholastic difficulties, specific (2), general (5), backward, retarded (6), back¬ ward with other symptoms (4) . 17 (n) For intelligence tests—children emigrating. 3 (o) For investigation, report and advice on schooling, training or treatment:— (i) Children with special handicap: spastic (2), partially sighted (2), partially deaf (2), multiple handicap (1) . 7 (ii) Children with epilepsy (3), epilepsy with behaviour difficulties (5), mongol¬ ism (1), osteogenesis imperfecta (1) . 10 (p) For general assessment and report (15), for assessment and advice on handling or treatment (5). (Children in the care of the Children’s Officer for Denbigh¬ shire) . ••• ... 20 (q) For assessment of intelligence, report and advice on schooling:— (Counties of Anglesey (4), Caernarvonshire (43), Denbighshire (9), Flintshire (52), Merionethshire (4), Others (3)) . 115 369