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 East Ham]
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Age Groups, General Condition, Co-operation of Parents.
TABLE 50.
Group | Total inspected | Parents present | Requiring treatment | General Condition. | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
A | B | C | |||||||||
No. | % | No. | % | No. | % | No. | % | No. | % | ||
I. | 2797 | 2645 | 90.9 | 700 | 25.0 | 1114 | 39.8 | 1616 | 57.8 | 67 | 2.4 |
II | 1051 | 766 | 72.8 | 237 | 22.5 | 315 | 30.0 | 713 | 67.8 | 23 | 2.2 |
III | 1271 | 323 | 25.4 | 225 | 17.7 | 700 | 55.1 | 562 | 44.2 | 9 | 0.7 |
Age 6- 7 | 645 | 614 | 95.1 | 120 | 18.6 | 205 | 31.8 | 427 | 66.2 | 13 | 2.0 |
Age 7- 8 | 1704 | 1433 | 84.0 | 388 | 22.7 | 563 | 33.0 | 1095 | 64.3 | 46 | 2.7 |
Age 12-13 | 1015 | 458 | 45.1 | 195 | 19.2 | 452 | 44.5 | 528 | 52.0 | 35 | 3.5 |
Totals 1949 | 8483 | 6239 | 73.5 | 1865 | 21.9 | 3349 | 39.5 | 4941 | 58.2 | 193 | 2.3 |
1948 | 6665 | 4769 | 71.6 | 1232 | 18.5 | 1697 | 25.5 | 4840 | 72.6 | 128 | 1.9 |
1947 | 6033 | 3670 | 60.8 | 1101 | 18.3 | 709 | 11.7 | 5252 | 87.1 | 72 | 1.2 |
1946 | 5438 | 3487 | 64.1 | 1158 | 21.3 | 772 | 14.2 | 4436 | 81.6 | 230 | 4.2 |
1945 | 3604 | 2178 | 60.4 | 706 | 19.6 | 412 | 12.3 | 2894 | 86.4 | 44 | 1.3 |
HANDICAPPED PUPILS.
No special schools for the treatment of handicapped pupils
are maintained by the Authority. Arrangements are made by the
Chief Education Officer with schools outside the area for the
admission of children as recommended.
Under the provisions of Section 34 of the Education Act, 1944,
*148 special examinations have been carried out by approved
medical officers, as a result of which, 122 children, ascertained to
be within the various categories, were recommended for special
educational treatment as indicated in the following table:—
TABLE 51.
Category | Number ascertained | Recommendation | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Day Special School | Boarding Special School | Ordinary School with special treatment | ||
Blind | — | — | — | — |
Partially Sighted | — | — | — | — |
Deaf | 3 | 3 | — | — |
Partially Deaf | — | — | — | — |
Delicate | 20 | — | 20 | — |
Diabetic | — | — | — | — |
Educationally Sub-normal | 30 | 14 | 2 | 14 |
Epileptic | 1 | — | 1 | — |
Maladjusted | 3 | — | 2 | 1 |
Physically Handicapped | 10 | 6 | 4 | — |
*Suffering from Speech Defect | 55 | — | — | 55 |
* Examinations of children with suspected speech defects are not included in
the special examinations under this paragraph, but those requiring speech
therapy are classified as Handicapped Pupils.