Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Enfield]
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TABLE 58
HANDICAPPED CHILDREN
Children in Special Schools
Category | Day | Residential |
---|---|---|
Blind | — | 2 |
Partially sighted | 6 | 4 |
Deaf | 10 | 3 |
Partially hearing | 17 | 6 |
Educationally subnormal | 102 | 17 |
Delicate | 88 | 21 |
Epileptic | - | 1 o |
Physically handicapped | 32 | 8 |
Maladjusted | 9 | 48 |
Nine children with more than one defect are included in the category of
their major defect.
TABLE 59
VACCINATION AND IMMUNISATION
B.C.G. Vaccination Scheme
(a) School Children | |
Number of parents approached for consent | 3,181 |
Number of parents who consented | 2,488 |
Number of children given Tuberculin Test (Heaf Gun) | 2,450 |
Number of children found to be positive | 235 |
Number of children found to be negative | 2,172 |
Number of Tuberculin Tests not read | 43 |
Number of children given B.C.G. vaccination | 2,161 |
Number of children found to be negative but not vaccinated | 11 |
Doubtful first degree positives in 1965 retested | 100 |
Number found to be positive | 39 |
Number found to be negative | 59 |
Number given B.C.G. vaccination | 59 |
(b) Students at Technical Colleges | |
Number given Tuberculin Test | 8 |
Number found to be positive | 2 |
Number found to be negative | 4 |
Number given B.C.G. vaccination | 4 |