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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
Croydon 1933
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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Mental Deficiency (Notification of Children) Regulations, 1928.
Statement of the number of Children notified during the year
ended 31st December, 1933, by the Local Education Authority
to the Local Mental Deficiency Authority.
Total number of children notified: 24.
| Diagnosis. | Boys. | Girls. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.- | -(i) | Children incapable of receiving benefit or further benefit from instruction in a Special School: | ||
| (a) Idiots | ... | 1 | ||
| (b) Imbeciles | 2 | 3 | ||
| (c) Others | 1 | 7 | ||
| (ii) | Children unable to be instructed in a Special School without detriment to the interests of other children: | |||
| (a) Moral defectives | — | — | ||
| (b) Others | — | — | ||
| 2.- | —Feeble-minded children notified on leaving a Special School on or before attaining the | |||
| age of 16 | 3 | 6 | ||
| 3.- | —Feeble-minded children notified under Article | |||
| 3, i.e., "special circumstances" cases | 1 | — | ||
| 4.- | —Children who in addition to being mentally | |||
| defective were blind or deaf | — | — | ||
| Totals | 7 | 17 | ||