London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

View report page

Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Tottenham 1927

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Tottenham]

This page requires JavaScript

Text

Copy text to clipboard

17
BLIND, DEAF, DEFECTIVE AND EPILEPTIC CHILDREN.
Residential Schools.
There is no Residential School established for defective school
children belonging to Tottenham.
To meet the need of defective children, for whom residential
treatment is necessary, places are found outside the area.
These are visited periodically by the Medical Officer.
School for the Deaf.
There were 60 children on the register at this school at the end of
the year, 34 being Tottenham children. These are not all deaf, but are
so dull of hearing as to be unable to derive advantage from attendance
at ordinary elementary schools.

Table: Thus there are 45 children boardied outside the district, in Residential Schools, as follows:—

Thus there are 45 children boardied outside the district, in Residential Schools, as follows:—

Defects.Residential Institutions.
Mentally Defectives (16 cases).All Souls Special School, Hillingdon. Bigod's Hall, Dunmow, Essex. Allerton Priory, Woolton, Liverpool.
Epileptics (7 cases).Chalfont Colony, Buckinghamshire. Liugfield Homes and School. St. Elizabeth's Colony, Much Hadham.
Blind and Partially Blind (13 cases).East London Home, Clapton. London School for Blind, Hampstead. Barclay's Blind Institution, Brighton.
Physically Defective and Crippled (6 cases).The Victoria Cripple Home, Bournemouth. St. Patrick's Open-Air School, Hayling Island. St. Andrew's Open-Air School, Hayling Island. Shaftesbury Cripple Home, Hastings. Hermitage Art-Craft School, Chailey. St. Michael's Cripple Home, Clacton-on-Sea.
Deaf and Dumb (3 cases).St. John's Deaf School, Boston Spa. L.C.C. Special School, Penn. Royal Deaf and Dumb Institution, Margate.