[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council] page -

London County Council 1926

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]

This page requires JavaScript

Table: Continued from previous page...

Download table as:

Continued from previous page...

Deaf—continued.		Boys.	Girls.	Total.
(ii.) Suitable for training in a school or class for the partially deaf	Attending certified schools or classes for the partially deaf	80	78	158
	Attending public elementary schools	10	7	17
	At other institutions	—	—	—
	At no school or institution	2	2	4
Mentally defective.
Feeble-minded (cases not notifiable to the Local Control Authorities)	Attending certified schools for mentally defective children	3,503	2,685	6,191
	Attending public elementary schools	6	5	11
	*At other Institutions	333	211	544
	At no school or institution	47	49	96
Notified to the Local Control Authority during the year	Feeble-minded	53	90	143
	Imbecile	76	51	127
	Idiots	10	7	17
Epileptics.
Suffering from severe epilepsy	Attending certified special schools for epileptics	57	37	94
	In institutions other than certified special schools	33	25	58
	††Attending public elementary schools	6	1	7
	At no school or institution	94	106	200
Suffering from epilepsy which is not severe	Attending public elementary schools—
	Ordinary	275	264	539
	Special	64	52	116
	At no school or institution	—	—	—
Physically defective.
Infectious pulmonary and glandular tuberculosis	*At sanatoria or sanatorium schools approved by the Ministry of Health or the Board	55	71	126
	At certified day open-air schools	92	73	165
	At other institutions	2	2	4
	At no school or institution	18	14	32
Non-infectious but active pulmonary and glandular tuberculosis	♦At sanatoria or sanatorium schools approved by the Ministry of Health or the Board	73	133	206
	At certified residential open-air schoolb	—	—	—
	At certified day open-air schools	137	109	246
	JAt public elementary schools	54	48	102
	At other institutions	2	4	6
	At no school or institution	9	7	16
Delicate children [e.g., pre- or latent tuberculosis, malnutrition, debility, anæmia,etc.)	At certified residential open-air schools	3,194	1,445	4,639
	At certified day open-air schools	712	506	1,218
	At public elementary schools	3,911	3,888	7,799
	*At other institutions	70	35	105
	At no school or institution	177	190	367
Active non-pulmonary tuberculosis (Note.—Cases of more or less quiescent tuberculosis attend the special day cripple schools)	*At sanatoria or hospital schools approved by the Ministry of Health or the Board	418	336	754
	At public elementary schools	47	55	102
	At other institutions	3	—	3
	At no school or institution	18	13	31
Crippled children (other than those with active tuberculous disease), e.g., children suffering from paralysis, etc., and including those with severe heart disease	At certified hospital schools	15	16	31
	At certified residential cripple schools	27	17	34
	At certified day cripple schools	2,044	2,040	4,084
	At public elementary schools	1,040	1,352	2,392
	*At other institutions	269	239	508
	At no school or institution	252	399	651
* Some of these may have come to the notice of the school medical officer, but have been dealt with throughout by the Guardians. † Discovered at medical inspections and referred for treatment. †† Awaiting admission to Colony. ** These figures include about 1,000 children suffering from non-pulmonary [tuberculosis more or less quiescent, or from the after-effects of such disease.