[Report 1947] / School Medical Officer, Somerset County Council.

  • Somerset (England). County Council.
Date:
1947
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Credit: [Report 1947] / School Medical Officer, Somerset County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    13 Treatment, I’s.ycho-tlicrapy by Psycliiaii’ists Drug-tlierapy by Psycliiatrists Play-tlieraj)y by Psychologists lleinedial Coaching by Psychologists 84 42 IG 3 Distribution of Cases seen at Clinics. Bridgwater. Glastonbury. Taunton. Yeovil. Weston-s.-Mare. . Frome. 41 36 118 GC 93 25 The following table shows an analysis of 100 sample cases fi'om Taunton and Yeovil Clinics, ddie analysis headings vefei’ onl}' to the symptoms for which the child was referred :— Nervous Disorders. Habit Disorders. Pears and anxiety 3 Sleej:) Disorders ... 3 Sechisiveness 2 IMovement Disorders 1 Excitability 1 Excretory Disorders 1 Enuresis ... 11 Nervous Pains and Paralysis ... 0 Fits . 19 Physical disorders 6 Behaviour Disorders. Educational & Vocational Difficulties. Unmanageable ... 8 Dackwardness 18 Tempers ... 3 Inability to concentrate U Aggressiveness ... 6 Vocational Guidance 1 Stealing ... 9 Lying and Eomancing ... 1 Truancy and Wandering 2 Sex difficulties ... 5 It will be appreciated that w hen tl lese cases have been e.xamined they are frequency found to exhibit more than one of the disorders listed above. while many cases of so-called “backwar dness’ are found to lun'e a retardation due to emotional disturbance. Of the numljei' referred foi' “fils” some wore found not to be of the eihleptic type, but an increasing nunil)er of children now examined hy electro-encephalo- graphic UK'Hiods arci found to ha\e a disturbance of brain rhythm in association with hehavioui' diso)'d('i’, wliich may be susce])tible to trealment by drugs. 'I'he new l)e])arlinent at Musgi'ove Park Hospital has been working since April 3i'd, 1047, and during (he nine months to January, 1048, .78 cases have been examined, exclusive of cases seen for research projects and adults. Though all