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Taking the work of the various child guidance clinics in London as a whole,
they have formed a very useful addition to the available therapeutic armamentarium.
The chief officer of the mental hospitals department has furnished the following After-careers,
return for the year 1931 on after-care of children formerly attending special schools
for the mentally defective:—
Male.
Female.
Total.
Grand total
under
headings.
(1) Number of children born in or subsequent to 1913
who have left special schools and who were on
the books of the supervision section on 31st
December, 1931
616
347
963
963
(2) Number who after trial have proved themselves to
be incapable by reason of mental or physical
defect of undertaking remunerative employment
12
4
16
16
(3) Number employed as under:—
(a) Industrial or manual occupations (i.e.,
factory work, trade or any part of a trade)
. 336
208
544
-
(6) Agricultural or rural occupation
4
—
4
—
(c) Domestic occupation-—
(1) Receiving remuneration
M.
F.
Total
16
80
96
-
15
54
69
(2) Required for work at home
1
26
27
(d) Commercial, shop assistant, or selling behind
a counter, office boys or girls
17
4
21
-
(e) Gone into Army, Navy or Merchant Service
—
—
—
—
(/) Blind alley or other precarious occupations
(i.e., vanboys, newsboys, errand boys and
girls, selling from a barrow)
145
3
148
813
(4) Number judged to be employable but out of
work
60
30
90
90
(5) Number whose careers have not been traced:—
(a) Not visited and not seen at bureaux
12
12
24
(6) Visited but no information obtainable
14
6
20
44
(6) Cases dealt with in addition to above include
those who have since:—
(a) died
1
1
—
(b) attained the age of 18 years
338
198
536
—
(c) been dealt with under M.D. Act
15
8
23
—
(d) been lost sight of, or have left London
16
4
20
—
(e) been dealt with by Pu blicAssistanceCommittee
1
—
1
581
N.B.—In addition to the 963 after-care cases shown in the above return there were
585 boys and girls between 16 and 18 years of age who had left special schools and were
under statutory supervision on 31st December, 1931. These also were on the books of the
supervision section for placing in employment.
Deaf Children.
During the year, Mr. Yearsley, the Council's consulting aural surgeon, has seen
351 children, the decisions regarding whom are set out on page 74. The cause of
deafness in the partially deaf, deaf and defective, and deaf seen for the first time
during the year was found in 31 cases to be congenital, and in 100 cases acquired,
while in 4 cases the cause was uncertain. The congenital cases were classified as:—
Boys. Girls. Total.
True hereditary deafness 2 2 4
Sporadic deaf birth 11 14 25
Aphasia 0 2 2
Totals 13 18 31