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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 1951
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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CLINIC FOR EDUCATIONALLY SUB-NORMAL CHILDREN.
300 children were examined during 1951. The classifications
arrived at, together with recommendations made, are as
follows:—
(1) Found to be mentally defective :
(a) Found to be mentally defective and referred to
Local Authority and Occupation Centre 12
(b) Found to be mentally defective and referred to
Local Authority for Statutory Supervision 20
(c) Recommended Institutional Care and referred
to Local Authority 8
(2) Found to be educationally sub-normal:
(a) Recommended to St. Christopher's Special
School 60
(b) Recommended to Residential School 4
(c) Referred to Special Class in Ordinary
tary School 20
(d) Recommended for re-test 50
(e) Deferred for Medical Treatment 26
(f) Recommended for St. Giles' 4
(g) Recommended Epileptic Colony 1
(h) Referred back to Ordinary Elementary School 10
(3) Referred to Child Guidance Clinic 8
(4) Examined for other Authorities 6
229
Mental Tests at St. Christopher's 12
241
760 home visits have been paid to Education cases.