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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
London County Council 1930
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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The following table shows the number of children nominated for examination and the recommendations made:—
| Defect. | Number nominated. | Suitable for admission to | Returned to elementary school. | Unfit for any school. | Notified under M.D. Acts. | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ocular | B. | G. | Blind school | Myope class | Swan ley | B. | G. | B. | G. | B. | G. | ||||
| B. | G. | B. | G. | B. | G | ||||||||||
| 692 | 820 | 13 | 10 | 89 | 144 | 117 | 129 | 440 | 510 | 33 | 27 | — | — | ||
| Aural | 184 | 171 | Deaf school | Hard of hearing class | 105 | 84 | 3 | 6 | — | — | |||||
| B. | G. | B. | G. | ||||||||||||
| 37 | 38 | 39 | 43 | ||||||||||||
| P.D. | 851 | 849 | P.D. school | Open-air school | 149 | 157 | 50 | 63 | — | — | |||||
| B. | G. | B. | G. | ||||||||||||
| 623 | 618 | 29 | 11 | ||||||||||||
| M.D. | 1,253 | 957 | M.D. school | 561 | 406 | 52 | 43 | 64* | 46* | ||||||
| B. | G. | ||||||||||||||
| 576 | 462 | ||||||||||||||
| Epileptic | 111 | 127 | Epileptic colony | 49 | 46 | 29 | 46 | ||||||||
| B. | G. | ||||||||||||||
| 33 | 35 | ||||||||||||||
| Total cases | 3,091 | 2,924 | 1,556 | 1,490 | 1,304 | 1,203 | 167 | 185 | 64 | 46 | |||||
| 6,015 | 3,046 | 2,507 | 352 | 110 | |||||||||||
* Of these, 55 boys and 37 girls were imbeciles; 3 boys and 2 girls were idiots; and 6 boys
and 7 girls were feeble-minded.
Local
Government
Act. 1929.
Survey of
transferred
schools.
Included in the foregoing table are the numbers dealt with as a result of a
preliminary survey of the Poor Law schools which came within the purview of the
Education Authority owing to the Local Government Act, 1929. The details are as follows:—
| Defect. | Number nominated. | Suitable for admission to | Returned to elementary school. | Unfit for any school. | Notified under M.D. Acts. | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ocular | B. | G. | Blind school | Myope class | Swan- ley | B. | G. | B. | G. | B. | G. | |||
| B. | G. | B. | G. | B. | G. | |||||||||
| 62 | 70 | — | — | 2 | 5 | 36 | 48 | 19 | 16 | 5 | 1 | — | — | |
| Aural | 25 | 19 | Deaf school | Hard of hearing class | 20 | 13 | — | — | — | — | ||||
| B. | G. | B. | G. | |||||||||||
| 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |||||||||||
| P.D. | 16 | 17 | P.D. school | Open-air school | 8 | 7 | — | — | — | — | ||||
| B. | G. | B. | G. | |||||||||||
| 7 | 10 | 1 | — | |||||||||||
| M.D. | 141 | 107 | M.D. school | 76 | 63 | — | — | 2* | — | |||||
| B. | G. | |||||||||||||
| 63 | 44 | |||||||||||||
| Epileptic | 1 | Epileptic colony | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| B. | G. | |||||||||||||
| 1 | — | |||||||||||||
| 245 | 213 | 115 | 113 | 123 | 99 | 5 | 1 | 2 | — | |||||
| 458 | 228 | 222 | 6 | 2 | ||||||||||
* Of these one was imbecile and the other feeble-minded.