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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Hornsey 1934

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hornsey, Borough of]

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Table: PARTIALLY DEAF CHILDREN.Enter In this Section only children who can appropriately be taught in a school for the partially deaf.

PARTIALLY DEAF CHILDREN.

Enter In this Section only children who can appropriately be taught in a school for the partially deaf.

At Certified Schools for the Deaf.At Certified Schools for the Partially Deaf.At Public Elementary Schools.At other Institutions.At no School or Institution.Total.
Boys34
Girls1

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MENTALLY DEFECTIVE CHILDREN.
Feeble-minded Children.
Mentally Defective children are children who, not being Imbecile and
not being merely dull or backward, are Incapable by reason of mental
defect of receiving proper benefit from the instruction in the ordinary
Public Elementary Schools but are not incapable by reason of that defect
of receiving benefit from instruction in Special Schools for mentally
defective children.
The following Table should include all such children except those
who have been notified to the Local Authority under the Mental Deficiency
Act in accordance with Article 3 of the Mental Deficiency (Notification
of Children) Regulations, 1928. Particulars relating to these children
should be entered in the return of notified children—Form 307 M.

Table:

At Certified Schools for Mentally Defective Children.At Public Elementary Schools.At other Institutions.At no School or Institution.Total.
Boys 22
Girls 13OD

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EPILEPTIC CHILDREN.
Children Suffering From Severe Epilepsy.
In this part of the Table only those children should be included who
are epileptic within the meaning of the Act, i.e., children who, not being
Idiots or imbeciles, are unfit by reason of severe epilepsy to attend the
ordinary Public Elementary Schools.

Table: For practical purposes the Board are of opinion that children who are subject to attacks of major epilepsy in school should be recorded as severe" cases and excluded from ordinary Public Elementary Schools.

For practical purposes the Board are of opinion that children who are subject to attacks of major epilepsy in school should be recorded as severe" cases and excluded from ordinary Public Elementary Schools.

At Certified Special Schools.At Public Elementary Schools.At other Institutions.At- no School or Institution.Total.
BoysNil,
Girls