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London County Council 1934

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

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Table 36.

Defect.Number nominated.Suitable for admission toReturned to elementary school.Invalided as for the time unfit for any school.Notified under M.D. Acta.
Boys.Girls.Blind school.Partially sighted.Swanley.Boys.Girls.Boys.Girls.Boys.Girls.
Boys.Girls.BoysGirls.Boys.Girls.
Ocular5076381463828771338472189
Deaf school.Hard of hearing class.
Aural123106Boys.Girls.Boys.Girls.7869-1--
26211915
P.D. school.Day open-air school.Residential P.D. school
Physically defective817719Boys.Girls.Boys.Girls.Boys.Girls.1661414248--
52248226156133
M.D. school.
Mentally defective896660Boys.Girls.5083304635*40*32
302263
Epileptic colony.
Epileptic6072Boys.Girls.27331925__
1414
Total cases2,4032,1951,1211,0001,1171,0451251184032
4,5982,1212,16224372

♦ Of these 30 boys and 25 girls were imbeciles ; 7 boys and 4 girls were idiots ; and 3 boys and 3 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.
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:—

Table 37.

Morbid conditions.Boys.Girls.Total.
Infantile paralysis292958
Cerebral paralysis111728
Various paralyses151328
Tuberculosis of bones and joints7365138
Osteomyelitis311142
Rickets and resulting deformities325
Congenital deformities181129
Scoliosis1910
Traumata and amputations22628
Non-tuberculous arthritis and synovitis22628
Rheumatism and chorea183755
Various chest conditions—fibrosis, bronchitis, asthma8038118
Heart diseases-
Congenital261541
Acquired valvular194217411
Non-valvular182341
Anæmia358
Pseudo-hypertrophic muscular dystrophy10111
Various nervous conditions, ataxia, etc.134
Other diseases—chiefly medical8715
Total5835151,098

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