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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 1937

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

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Table: Table 35

Table 35

DefectNumber nominatedSuitable for admission toReturned to elementary schoolInvalided as for the time unfit for any schoolNotified under M.D. Acts
OcularBoysGirlsBlind schoolPartially sightedSwanleyBoysGirlsBoysGirlsBoysGirls
BoysGirlsBoysGirlsBoysGirls
548847548011919222626549068——
Aural195167Deaf schoolPartially deaf school141124—2——
BoysGirlsBoysGirls
31172324
Physically defective684561P.D. schoolDay open-air schoolResidential P.D. and hospital 8ohool1091103029——
BoysGirlsBoysGirlsBoysGirls
40934645279149
Mentally defective724442M.D. school3412044126*43*39
BoysGirls
299173
Epileptic6364Epileptic colony30331616——
BoysGirls
1715
Total2,2142,0811,1921,00088696193814339
4,2952,1921,84717482

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*Of these 23 boys and 29 girls were imbeciles; 6 boys and 3 girls were idiots; and 14 boys and 7 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 36

Table:

Morbid conditionsBoysGirlsTotal
Infantile paralysis332558
Cerebral paralysis14923
Various paralyses13518
Tuberculosis of bones and joints473582
Osteomyelitis392362
Rickets and resulting deformities13518
Congenital deformities (including dwarfism)132336
Spinal deformities (including scoliosis)189
Traumata and amputations10717
Non-tuberculous arthritis and synovitis21930
Rheumatism and chorea132033
Various chest conditions—fibrosis, bronchitis, asthma8033113
Heart diseases—
Congenital292251
Acquired valvularwith history of rheumatism117127244
without history of rheumatism71118
Non-valvularwith history of rheumatism7512
without history of rheumatism———
Anæmia201434
Pseudo-hypertrophic muscular dystrophy718
Various nervous conditions, ataxia, etc.527
Other diseases—chiefly medical111122
Total500395895

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• Including 3 girls suffering from fragilitas ossium and 5 boys suffering from hæmophilia.
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