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London County Council 1928

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

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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	88	94	182
	Attending public elementary schools	2	1	3
	At other institutions	2	—	2
	At no school or institution	—	1	1
Mentally defective.
Feeble-minded (cases not notifiable to the Local Control Authorities)	Attending certified schools for mentally defective children	3,162	2,265	5,427
	Attending public elementary schools	8	8	16
	*At other Institutions	327	168	495
	At no school or institution	69	47	116
Epileptics.
Suffering from severe epilepsy	Attending certified special schools for epileptics	64	33	97
	In institutions other than certified special schools	11	10	21
	††Attending public elementary schools	12	12	24
	At no school or institution	54	49	103
Suffering from epilepsy which is not severe (Note.— This includes children under observation on account of a suspicion of possible epilepsy.)	Attending public elementary schools—
	Ordinary	228	230	458
	Special	63	46	109
	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 of Education	37	80	117
	At certified day open-air schools	142	108	250
	At other institutions	3	3	6
	At no school or institution	22	12	34
Non-infectious but active pulmonary and glandular tuberculosis	*At sanatoria or sanatorium schools approved by the Ministry of Health or the Board of Education	70	108	178
	At certified residential open-air schools	—	—	—
	At certified day open-air schools	212	162	374
	‡At public elementary schools	70	63	133
	At other institutions	4	5	9
	At no school or institution	—	—	—
Delicate children (e.g., pre- or latent tuberculosis, malnutrition, debility, anæmia,etc.)	At certified residential open-air schools	3,017	1,583	4,600
	At certified day open-air schools	1,102	724	1,826
	At public elementary schools	3,965	3,270	7,235
	*At other institutions	79	60	139
	At no school or institution	128	127	255
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 of Education	395	298	693
	‡At public elementary schools	28	20	48
	At other institutions	—	1	1
	At no school or institution	26	20	46
Crippled children (other than those with active tubercu-* lous disease), e.g., children suffering from paralysis, etc., and including those with severe heart disease	At certified hospital schools	29	23	52
	At certified residential cripple schools	32	23	55
	*At certified day cripple schools	2,009	1,975	3,984
	At public elementary schools	990	1,215	2,205
	*At other institutions	337	339	676
	At no school or institution	232	340	572
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.