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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 1953
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hornsey, Borough of]
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TABLE 29—HANDICAPPED PUPILS
| CATEGORY | ASCERTAINMENT | DISTRIBUTION (as at last day of year) | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. of ascertained Cases known 1st day of Year | No. of New Cases ascertained during Year | No. of ascertained Cases known last day of Year | In Special Day Schools | In Special Residential Schools | In Maintained Primary and Secondary Schools | In Independent Schools | Not at School | TOTAL | ||||||||||
| B | G | B | G | B | G | B | G | B | G | B | G | B | G | B | G | B | G | |
| Blind Pupils | 3 | . | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | . | 1 | 3 | . | . | . | . | . | 1 | . | 4 | 1 |
| Partially Sighted Pupils | . | 7 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 6 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | 1 | 6 | |
| Deaf Pupils | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | . | 1 | 1 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | 1 | 1 |
| Partially Deaf Pupils | 5 | 6 | . | • | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | . | . | . | . | . | 4 | 3 | ||
| Educationally Sub-Normal Pupils | 34 | 20 | 7 | 4 | 34 | 22 | 24 | 18 | 6 | o | 3 | . | . | 1 | . | 34 | 22 | |
| Epileptic Pupils | 1 | 1 | . | 1 | 1 | 2 | . | . | 1 | 1 | . | . | . | . | . | 1 | 2 | |
| Maladjusted Pupils | 23 | 8 | 4 | . | 14 | 4 | . | . | 7 | 4 | 6 | . | . | . | . | 14 | 4 | |
| Physically Handicapped Pupils | 7 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 3 | . | 1 | . | 2 | . | 1 | . | 6 | 4 | |
| Pupils with Speech Defects | 117 | 41 | 32 | 12 | 56 | 18 | . | . | . | . | 55 | 18 | . | . | 1 | . | 56 | 18 |
| Delicate Pupils | 9 | 5 | 19 | 10 | 12 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 1 | . | . | . | . | 12 | 8 |
| Pupils with Multiple Defects | 2 | . | . | . | 1 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | 1 | . | 1 | . |
| TOTALS | 202 | 91 | 67 | 32 | 134 | 69 | 32 | 30 | 29 | 15 | 65 | 24 | 3 | 5 | 134 | 69 | ||
| GRAND TOTALS | 293 | 99 | 203 | 62 | 44 | 89 | 3 | 5 | 203 | |||||||||
| Children not ascertained as H.P. but recommended convalescence in Holiday Home or Camp School. | B | G | ||||||||||||||||
| 21 | 23 | |||||||||||||||||