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 West Ham]
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At Certified Schools for the Deaf. | At Certified Schools for t he Partially Deaf. | At Public Elementary Schools | At Other Institutions. | At no School 0r Institution. | Total. |
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11 | - | - | 18 |
At Certified Schools for Mentally Defective-Children. | At Public Ele m§ntary Schools | At Other Institutions. | At no School or Institution. | Total. |
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184 | 84 | - | 8 | 226 |
Diagnosis. | Boys | Girls | |
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1. | (i) Children incapable of receiving benefit or further benefit from instruction in a Special School: | ||
(a) Idiots | 1 | 1 | |
(b) Imbeciles | 6 | 6 | |
(c) Others | 8 | ||
(ii) Children unable to be instructed in a Special School without detriment to the interests of other children : | |||
(a) Moral defectives | — | — | |
(b) Others | — | 1 | |
2. | Feeble-minded children notified on leaving a Special School on or before attaining the age of 16 | 8 | 2 |
3. | Feeble-minded children notified under Article 3, i.e., "special circumstances" cases | - | |
Children who in addition to being mentally defective were blind or deaf | 1 | 1 | |
Number of children notified | 20 | 19 |