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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Hornsey 1954
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hornsey, Borough of]
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| CATEGORY | ASCERTAINMENT | DISTRIBUTION (as at last day of year) | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. of ascertained Cases known 1st day of Year | No. of New Cases ascertained during Year | No. of ascertained Cases known last day of Year | In Special Day Schools | In Special Residential Schools | In Maintained Primary and Secondary Schools | In Independent Schools | Not at School | TOTAL | ||||||||||
| B | G | B | G | B | G | B | G | B | G | B | G | B | G | B. | G | B | G | |
| Blind Pupils | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | . | 3 | 2 | . | . | . | . | . | . | 4 | 2 |
| Partially Sighted Pupils | 1 | 6 | . | . | 1 | 5 | 1 | 5 | . | . | . | . | . | . | 1 | 5 | ||
| Deaf Pupils | 1 | 1 | • | • | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | . | * | . | . | . | . | 1 | 1 | ||
| Partially Deaf Pupils | 4 | 3 | * | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | . | . | . | . | . | . | 4 | 3 |
| Educationally Sub-Normal Pupils | 34 | 22 | 6 | 3 | 34 | 25 | 22 | 19 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | . | . | . | . | 34 | 25 |
| Epileptic Pupils | 1 | 2 | . | • | • | 2 | . | . | . | 1 | . | 1 | . | . | . | . | 2 | |
| Maladjusted Pupils | 14 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 14 | 5 | . | . | 12 | 5 | 2 | ' | . | . | . | . | 14 | 5 |
| Physically Handicapped Pupils | 6 | 4 | 1 | • | 6 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | . | ' | ' | I | . | . | . | 6 | 3 |
| Pupils with Speech Defects | 50 | 18 | 30 | 8 | 79 | 26 | 1 | 3 | . | 71 | 22 | 2 | . | . | . | 79 | 26 | |
| Delicate Pupils | 12 | 8 | 10 | 8 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 9 | 1 | . | . | . | 11 | 8 |
| Pupils with Multiple Defects | 1 | . | . | . | 1 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | 1 | . | 1 | . |
| TOTALS | 134 | 69 | 53 | 23 | 155 | 80 | 30 | 32 | 39 | 16 | 77 | 29 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 155 | 80 |
| GRAND TOTALS | 203 | 76 | 235 | 62 | 55 | 106 | 5 | 7 | 235 | |||||||||
| Children not ascertained as H.P. but recommended convalescence in Holiday Home or Camp School. | B | G | ||||||||||||||||
| 16 | 8 | |||||||||||||||||