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London County Council 1933

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

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Table: Defective children.Examinations with a view to the admission of children to special schools, other than hospital schools, were made in 5,112 cases, a decrease of 318 from the number examined in the previous year. The following table shows the number of children nominated for examination and the recommendations made:—

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Defective children.Examinations with a view to the admission of children to special schools, other than hospital schools, were made in 5,112 cases, a decrease of 318 from the number examined in the previous year. 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.		Invalided as for the time unfit for any school.		Notified under M.D. Acts.
	Boys.	Girls.	Blind school.			Myope class.		Swanley.			Boys.	Girls.	Boys.	Girls.	Boys.	Girls.
	Boys.	Girls.	Boys.	Girls.		Boys	Girls.	Boys.		Girls.	Boys.	Girls.	Boys.	Girls.	Boys.	Girls.
Ocular	582	704	4	8		75	95	67		71	422	512	14	18	—	—
			Deaf school.				Hard of hearing class.
			Boys.		Girls.		Boys.		Girls.
Aural	151	133	45		27		25		30		81	73	—	3	—	—
			P.D. school.			Day open-air school.		Residential P.D. school.
Physically defective			Boys.	Girls.		Boys	Girls.	Boys.		Girls,
Physically defective	840	841	526	546		20	17	66		36	183	192	45	50	—	—
			M.D. school.
			Boys.				Girls.
Mentally defective	1,030	658	360				233				586	346	31	36	*53	*43
			Epileptic colony.
			Boys.				Girls.
Epileptic	87	86	19				16				54	45	14	25	—	—
Total cases	2,690	2,422	1,207				1,079				1,326	1,168	104	132	53	43
Total cases	5,112		2,286								2,494		236		96

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• Of these 39 boys and 33 girls were imbeciles ; 3 boys and 1 girl were idiots ; and 11 boys and 9 girls were
feeble-minded.
The numbers of children actually attending special schools will be found in
table III of the statistical tables at the end of this report.
Children
admitted to
P.D. schools.

Table: The following statement shows the nature of the conditions found among the children certified as suitable for admission to schools for the physically defective at the admission examinations during the year:—

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The following statement shows the nature of the conditions found among the children certified as suitable for admission to schools for the physically defective at the admission examinations during the year:—

Morbid conditions.	Boys.	Girls.	Total.
Infantile paralysis	22	17	39
Cerebral paralysis	14	12	26
Various paralyses	16	13	29
Tuberculosis of bones and joints	89	77	166
Osteomyelitis	35	10	45
Rickets and resulting deformities	8	9	17
Congenital deformities	14	16	30
Traumata and amputations	32	13	45
Non-tuberculous arthritis and synovitis	15	15	30
Rheumatism and chorea	19	27	46
Various chest conditions—fibrosis, bronchitis, asthma	70	42	112
Heart diseases—
Congenital	18	22	40
Acquired valvular	193	253	446
Non-valvular	26	39	65
Anæmia	4	5	9
Pseudo-hypertrophic muscular dystrophy	7	—	7
Various nervous conditions, ataxia, etc.	5	7	12
Other diseases—chiefly medical	5	5	10
Total	692	582	1,174

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Table: The following statement shows the nature of the conditions found among the children certified as suitable for admission to schools for the physically defective at the admission examinations during the year:—