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Ilford 1931
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ilford]
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GENERAL SURVEY OF THE SCHOOL MEDICAL SERVICE.
The report shows that there are approximately 17,570 children
on the school rolls, compared with 16,303 in 1930.
The number of children in average attendance at school for
the period April 1st, 1930, to March 31st, 1931, was 14,168.
6,541 children were medically inspected, compared with 6,521
in 1930.
The following table compares the incidence-rate of physically and mentally defective children in Ilford with that of the previous year, and with the Board of Education average for the country as arrived at in 1930—
| Defects. | BOARD OF EDUCATION. | ILFORD. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Estimated incidence per 1,000 children in average attendance which was adopted in 1923. | Incidence per 1,000 children ascertained by School Medical Officers in 1930, based on average attendance (1st April, 1929, to 31st March, 1930) 4,940,831. | Incidence-Rate per 1.000 children in average attendance (1st April, 1929, to 31st March, 1930). | Incidence-Rate per 1,000 children in average attendance (1st April, 1930, to 31st March, 1931). | |
| Blind:— | ||||
| Totally | 0.4 | 0.4 | - *1 | 0.1* |
| Partially | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0*** | 0.82 |
| Deaf:— | ||||
| Totally | 0.9 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.6 |
| Partially | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.1 |
| Mentally Defective (educable) | 8.6 | 6.5 | 5.0 | 3.8 |
| Epileptics—Severe | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.4 |
| Physically Defective:— | ||||
| (a) Active Tuberculosis— | ||||
| Pulmonary and Glandudular (infectious) | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 |
| Pulmonary and Glandular (non-infectious) | 1.7 | 2.5 | 0.7 | 0.7 |
| Non-pulmonary | 1.5 | 1.9 | 0.2 | 0.8 |
| (b) Delicate | 15.5 | 16.5 | 10.3 | 12.1 |
| (e) Crippled | 10.0 | 9.2†† | 1.8† | 6.1†† |
* This figure is calculated, in accordance with the Hoard of Education definition, on the
number of children who are totally blind or "so blind that they can only be appropriately
taught in a school or class for totally blind children.''
** This figure is calculated, in accordance with the Board of Education definition, on the
number of children, who though they cannot read ordinary school books, or cannot read them
without injury to their eyesight, have such power of vision that they can appropriately be
taught in a school or class for the partially blind.
*** Certain cases were included as partially blind which would under the present definition
be classed as totally blind.
† This figure includes only children who are so crippled as to require instruction at a Cripple
School.
†† This figure includes children (other than those with active tuberculous disease) who are
suffering from " a degree of crippling sufficiently severe to interfere materially with a child's
normal mode of life.''