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Wood Green 1937

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wood Green]

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STATEMENT of the Number of Children Notified During the Year
ended 31st December, 1937, by the Local Education Authority
to the Local Mental Deficiency Authority.

Total Number of Children Notified , 3. ANALYSIS OF THE ABOVE TOTAL.

Diagnosis.Boys.Girls.
1. (i) Children incapable of receiving benefit or further benefit from instruction in a Special School:
(a) Idiots
(6) Imbeciles
(c) Others11
(ii) Children unable to be instructed in a Special School without detriment to the interests of other children:
(a) Moral defectives
(6) Others1
2. Feeble-minded children notified on leaving a Special School on or before attaining the age of 16
3. Feeble-minded children notified under Article 3, i.e., "special circumstances" cases
4. Children who, in addition to being mentally defective, were blind or deaf
Grand Total12