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Croydon 1940

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]

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Deaf Children.
Twelve boys and five girls are resident at special schools for the
deaf; one boy and one girl attend a special day school. The institutions
which these children attend are: Royal School for the Deaf, Margate, 11 boys
and 5 girls; Anerley Deaf School, 1 boy.
Epileptic Children.
One girl is resident at the Lingfield Epileptic Colony, Surrey.
Mentally Defective Children.
In addition to the day accommodation provided at St. Christopher's
School (evacuated to Banstead) two girls are resident in the Monyhull M.D.
School, Birmingham; arid eight boys at Besford Court, Worcestershire.
physicall.7 Defective Children.
In Audition to physically defective children accommodated at St. Giles'
Day Open Air School (evacuated to Bognor Regis) the Education Authority have
crippled children in the following special schools: The Hermitage Craft
School, Chailey, two boys and one girl; Victoria Homo for Crippled Children
Bournemouth, one girl; Rational Children's Home, Chipping Norton, one boy;
St. Patrick's Open Air School, Hayling Island, two girls; and St. Catherine's
Ventnor, one boy.
Speech Defects Class.

Table: The number of children that can attend each class at any given time is limited as each child has to be dealt with individually.

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The number of children that can attend each class at any given time is limited as each child has to be dealt with individually.

Total number of cases treated	94	Stammerers treated	2?
Referred for Physical Treatment	4	Developmental Dysarthrias	15
do, Psychological do	2	Cleft Palates	4
Discharged as cured: Croydon	26	Alexias	1
Britgton	9	Hysterical Mutism	1
Discharged for reasons of Rvaeaation and non-attendance	18	Palatal Paresis	1
Discharged for reasons of Rvaeaation and non-attendance	18	Lisps	10
St ill attanding	33	Undeveloped Speech Cases	7
Dismissal v. hen Brighton Clinic closed	8	Lalling cases	27
Dismissal v. hen Brighton Clinic closed	8	Deaf cases	1

Table: JLTENILE EMPLOYMENT RETURN.The following "lumbers of children were examined by the medical officers during 1940 as to their fitness to follow the part-time employment indicated.

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JLTENILE EMPLOYMENT RETURN.

The following "lumbers of children were examined by the medical officers during 1940 as to their fitness to follow the part-time employment indicated.

	1940	1939	1938	1937	1936
Delivery of Goods for Shopkeepers	167	157	334	172	151
Delivery of Newspapers	249	183	255	245	245
Delivery of Milk	19	30	68	31	43
	435	370	667	448	439

Table: THE PROVISION OF MEALS AND MILK AMD COD LIVER OIL AND MALT.

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THE PROVISION OF MEALS AND MILK AMD COD LIVER OIL AND MALT.

	1940	1939
Nc. of Children who received free dinners	432	529
No. of Free Dinners provided	35,508	86,717

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Croydon 1940

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Table: The number of children that can attend each class at any given time is limited as each child has to be dealt with individually.

Table: JLTENILE EMPLOYMENT RETURN.The following "lumbers of children were examined by the medical officers during 1940 as to their fitness to follow the part-time employment indicated.

Table: THE PROVISION OF MEALS AND MILK AMD COD LIVER OIL AND MALT.