[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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Table: The following statement gives an analysis of the 370 cases examined for admission to special schools for the physically defective, in which the children were either returned to elementary schools or were invalided as unfit for any school:—Children returned to elementaryschools or invalided.
The following statement gives an analysis of the 370 cases examined for admission to special schools for the physically defective, in which the children were either returned to elementary schools or were invalided as unfit for any school:—Children returned to elementaryschools or invalided.
Morbid conditions.
Elementary school.
Invalided.
Tuberculosis, actual or suspected; tuberculosis of bones, joints, etc.
Compared with the figures for the previous year, there has been need for fewer
children submitted for admission to schools for the physically defective to be invalided
from school attendance. The numbers for 1929 and 1930 were 168 and 113
respectively.
The number who proved capable of continuing their education hi an elementary
school was 274, compared with 306 during 1930.
Table: The special schools were visited at least once a quarter, and every child present Rota visits to was seen at least once during the year; the total number of examinations made was the schools. 18,681, and in addition 612 special examinations were made of children already on the rolls of special schools in connection with applications for non-enforcement of attendance and for similar reasons. As a result of the rota visits and the re-examina-tions the following re-classifications took place:—
The special schools were visited at least once a quarter, and every child present Rota visits to was seen at least once during the year; the total number of examinations made was the schools. 18,681, and in addition 612 special examinations were made of children already on the rolls of special schools in connection with applications for non-enforcement of attendance and for similar reasons. As a result of the rota visits and the re-examina-tions the following re-classifications took place:—
The number of children excluded was 74 (62 as imbecile, four as feeble-minded
ineducable, and eight as feeble-minded detrimental) and 32 were invalided on
medical grounds.
