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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
Bromley 1933
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bromley]
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Conditions for which Medical Certificates of Exclusion from School were issued by General Practitioners in 1933.
| Malnutrition, Debility, etc. | 28 |
| Skin | 21 |
| Eyes | 9 |
| Ears | 29 |
| Nose and Throat | 109 |
| Enlarged Cervical Glands | 27 |
| Heart | 3 |
| Lungs | 2 |
| Nervous Diseases | 6 |
| Deformities, Accidents | 12 |
| Operations | 24 |
| Measles | 56 |
| Whooping Cough | 16 |
| Mumps | 37 |
| Influenza | 98 |
| Chicken Pox | 15 |
| Rheumatism | 25 |
| Miscellaneous | 259 |
| Total | 776 |
Open Air Education.
No special open air school is provided for the
chronically debilitated child. This type of case is dealt
with mainly by sending such children on prolonged
convalescence (G2 cases in 1933), or by selecting the
children to be sent to the Burnt Ash School, which is
built on the Derbyshire Open air principles. Children
not adaptable to this arrangement are admitted to London
Day Special Schools by arrangement with the London
County Council.
Physically defective children requiring prolonged
hospital treatment are admitted to Stanmore Hospital,
where education is provided whilst the child receives
treatment. Heart cases are admitted to the Heartease
Hospital, West Wickham, or to the Edgar Lee Home.
At the end of the year 24 children were in
residential, or certified day special schools (see Table
III.).