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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 1932
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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Table III—continued. (a) Exceptional children in London in 1932—continued.
| Boys. | Girls. | Total. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Physically defective. Delicate children, i.e., all children (except those included in other groups) whose general health renders it desirable that they should be specially selected for admission to an open-air school. | At certified residential cripple schools | - | - | - |
| At certified day cripple schools | 80 | 41 | 121 | |
| At certified residential open-air schools | 357 | 257 | 614 | |
| At certified day open-air schools | 970 | 657 | 1,627 | |
| At public elementary schools | 3,204 | 3,089 | 6,293 | |
| At certified hospital schools | 178 | 277 | 455 | |
| At other institutions | 4 | 3 | 7t | |
| At no school or institution | 42 | 24 | 66 | |
| Crippled children (other than those with active tuberculous disease) who are suffering from a degree of crippling sufficiently severe to interfere materially with a child's normal mode of life. | At certified hospital schools | 167 | 95 | 252 |
| At certified residential cripple schools | 17 | 9 | 26 | |
| At certified day cripple schools | 1,370 | 1,112 | 2,482 | |
| At certified residential open-air schools | - | - | - | |
| At certified day open-air schools | - | - | - | |
| At public elementary schools | - | - | - | |
| At other institutions | 9 | 7 | 16† | |
| At no school or institution | 10 | 7 | 17 | |
| Children with heart disease, i.e., children whose defect is so severe as to necessitate the provision of educational facilities other than those of the public elementary school. | At certified hospital schools | 89 | 146 | 235 |
| At certified residential cripple schools | - | - | - | |
| At certified day cripple schools | 464 | 877 | 1,341 | |
| At certified residential open-air schools | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| At certified day open-air schools | - | - | - | |
| At public elementary schools | - | - | - | |
| At other institutions | 14 | 18 | 32† | |
| At no school or institution | - | - | - |
*At the time of report were waiting admission to schools for the mentally defective,
†Undergoing treatment in general hospitals, etc.
‡At the time of report were awaiting admission to certified schools.
(6) Reiurn of children suffering from more than one defect, 1932.
| Defect. | Type of School. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day M.D. | Residential M.D. | Day Blind | Residential Blind | Day Deaf | Residential Deaf | Epileptic colony | Day P.D. | Certified hospital Schls. | At other institutions (Gen. hosp., etc.) | At no Schl. | Total | |||||||||||||
| Boys. | Girls. | Boys. | Girls. | Boys. | Girls. | Boys. | Girls. | Boys. | Girls. | Boys. | Girls. | Boys. | Girls. | Boys. | Girls. | Boys. | Girls. | Boys. | Girls. | Boys. | 1 Girls. | Boys. | Girls. | |
| M.D. and deaf | 2 | 8 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 5 | 11 |
| M.D. and crippled | 54 | 20 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 16 | 15 | 7 | 9 | 3 | - | - | 1 | 81 | 45 |
| M.D. and heart | 28 | 30 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 30 | 31 |
| M.D. and epileptic | 25 | 22 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 30 | 11 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 57 | 33 |
| Blind and crippled | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Blind and heart | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Blind and epileptic | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | ||
| Deaf and crippled | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 7 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | 4 |
| Deaf and heart | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 |
| M.D. and T.B | - | -_ | -— | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | _ | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Epileptic and crippled | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| Epileptic and heart | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 1 |
| Epileptic, M.D. and crippled. | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 3 | 4 |
| Crippled, M.D. and blind | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Blind and M.D. | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 2 | 1 |
| Crippled and T.B. | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | |
| Heart and crippled | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 71 | 9 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 72 | 9 |
| Heart, epileptic and crippled. | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - |
| Heart, crippled and M.D. | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - |
| 110 | 80 | 3 | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 5 | 35 | 15 | 93 | 28 | 10 | 14 | 4 | - | 1 | 3 | 269 | 151 | |
| 420 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||