[Report 1967] / School Medical Officer of Health, Cumberland County Council.
- Cumberland County Council
- Date:
- 1967
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Credit: [Report 1967] / School Medical Officer of Health, Cumberland County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![quired, though the remedial gymnast may well in future be the key worker amongst this age group, considering the mainly minor orthopaedic conditions which require correc- tion, and excluding the small number of cases which require specialist hospital care. Another group which they might well also serve are spastic children both of pre-school and school age. In this connection a link with the appropriate hospital specialists should I believe be forged. A first part- time physiotherapist has been appointed to work with a group practice in the Southern Area. Speech Therapy There has been considerable discussion during 1967 of an important Regional Hospital Board report produced by Dr. E. M. Morley, Consultant Adviser to the Board on speech therapy. This report suggests the likely need up to 1970 of speech therapists in each area of the northern region taking account both of hospital and local authority needs. Although details of distribution of services will need to be worked out as the years pass, it is reassuring to see that the likely establishment of speech therapists in Cumberland through the Education Committee’s scholarship scheme should keep pace well with the requirements suggested by Dr. Morley. This is allowing room also for the sharing of speech therapists with the Hospital Management Committees. At the moment the establishment of speech therapists in Cum- berland is three and the speech therapists in posts amount to the equivalent of 3. By the time sessions are allocated to hospitals the establishment equivalent actually working in county clinics and schools is 2\. The Hospital Board’s assessed requirement for the hospitals in the area, including Carlisle, is 1] and, of course, this involves Carlisle City. With- out entering into the detailed complexities of distribution as between county, city, and hospitals the total number of speech therapists recommended in Dr. Morley’s report for the geographical county is 8 by 1970. During the year Mr. Beattie joined the staff in West Cumberland as a full time speech therapist and Mrs. Stone look up sessional work in East Cumberland. The following interesting report has been produced by the therapists and reflects, 1 am happy to say, vigorous and original thinking on their part and the introduction of elements of research and experiment which are a very healthy sign in the service. “School children form the majority of those attending speech clinics. Parents and teachers often feel that a child’s slow progress in school is the result of his defective speech.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29132678_0051.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
