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An arrangement for offering booster immunisation against poliomyelitis
to children about to leave school began during the year.
The B.C.G.Scheme
In accordance with the B.C.G. scheme, vaccination was offered to children
in the 13 years + age group, as a protection against tuberculosise The
following table is an analysis of this procedure:
1. No. of children tuberculin-tested 1,192 (1,554)
2. No. of children found positive to test 72 (109)
3. No. of children positive to test who
were X-rayed 37 (40)
4. No. of children found negative to test 1,151 (1,420)
5. No. of children vaccinated 1,081 (1,419)
Handicapped Pupils
At the end of 1969 special educational treatment was being provided for
1,036 children. The following table shows the categories of handicaps and
number of pupils receiving special education in day schools in the London
Borough of Hammersmith. These schools serve much of the West of London and
accordingly many of the pupils are not residents of Hammersmith.
Type of Handicap
School
No. of Pupils
Delicate Wood Lane School 178
Partially-sighted John Aird School 121
Deaf Ackmar Road School 68
Partially-hearing Units in (1) Holman Hunt School 29
(2) Hammersmith County
School and Christopher
Wren 7
Physically-handicapped Queensmill School 49
Educationally-subnormal Elizabeth Burgwin School 188
" " Wedgwood School 149
" " St Huberts School 177
Maladjusted (including
unit for 5 autistic
children) Northcroft School 70
(30 pupils are accommodated at Palingswick Hostel for diabetic children
and attend day schools in the neighbourhood).
Following an increase in the numbers of children with spina bifida
admitted to the Queensmill Physically-Handicapped school, an auxiliary nurse
was appointed to assist the school nurse.
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