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Tottenham 1955
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Tottenham]
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Tuberculosis Vaccine Trials
During 19 55 the Medical Research Council continued the
follow-up of children who volunteered as school leavers in 1951 to
take part in this trial., Dr. T.M. Pollock, the physician in
charge of the trials reports as follows:-
"We have now completed the figures for our last visit to
Tottenham, The young people concerned were those being seen for
the third time. Of the 397 invited, 266 attended for X-ray, i. e,
67%, and of these 7 3% completed their skin tests. In addition,
33% of the 51 who failed to attend last time had an X-ray on this
occasion".
The Handicapped Child
Distribution as at 3lst December, 1955
| Category | In Special Day Schools | In Special Residential Schools | In Maintained Primary & Secondary Schools | In Independent Schools | Not at School | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B | G | B | G | B | G | B | G | B | G | B | G | |
| Blind Pupils | 1 | - | 4 | 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | 5 |
| Partially Sighted Pupils | 7 | 7 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 9 | 8 |
| Deaf Pupils | 5 | 7 | 5 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 10 | 9 |
| Partially Deaf Pupils | 5 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 22 | 7 | - | - | - | - | 30 | 16 |
| Educationally Subnormal Pupils | 44 | 50 | 12 | 5 | 14 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 4 | - | 75 | 60 |
| Epileptic Pupils | - | - | - | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 |
| Maladjusted Pupils | - | - | 24 | 5 | 3 | 2 | - | - | 1 | - | 28 | 7 |
| Physically Handicapped Pupils | 16 | 11 | 3 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | 21 | 12 |
| Pupils with Speech Defects | 12 | 1 | 1 | - | 180 | 67 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 188 | 72 |
| Delicate Pupils | 3 | 5 | 16 | 11 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 19 | 17 |
| Pupils with Multiple Defects | 6 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | 12 | 10 |
| Totals | 89 | 95 | 72 | 35 | 222 | 83 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 397 | 219 |
| Grand Totals | 184 | 107 | 305 | 9 | 11 | 616 | ||||||
Broadly 1 in 60 children are ascertained handicapped pupils,
A great deal of thought is devoted to their accurate placement
whether this be in a day or residential special school, or preferably
in an ordinary school. Ideas on these subjects are constantly
changing as medical knowledge increases and demands a
constant watchfulness on the part of school medical officers«
"Reference to these changes will be found in the following paragraphs.