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London County Council 1938

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

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Table: Table 32

Table 32

ClassificationMaleFemaleTotalGrand total under headings
(1) Number not exceeding 18 years of age who have loft special schools and who were on the books of the supervision section on 31st December, 1938524394918918
(2) Number who after trial have proved themselves to be incapable by reason of mental or physical defect of undertaking remunerative employment26275353
(3) Number employed as under:—
(a) Industrial or manual occupations (i.e., factory work, trade or any part of a trade)338289627
(6) Agricultural or rural occupations2—2
(c) Domestic occupations—
M.F.Total
(1) Receiving remuneration52227
(2) Required for work at home2192174148
(d) Commercial, shop assistant, or selling behind a counter, office boys or girls8—8
(e) Gone into army, navy or merchant service1—1
(/) Blind alley or other precarious occupations (i.e., vanboys, newsboys, errand boys and girls, selling from a barrow)83487773
(4) (a) Number judged to be employable but out of work342256
(b) Attending polytechnic for further training—1157
(5) Number whose careers have not been traced:—
(a) Not visited and not seen at bureaux11314
(b) Visited but no information obtainable1472135
(6) Cases dealt with in addition to above including those who have since:—
(a) died———
(b) attained the age of 18 years341243584
(c) been dealt with under M.D. Acts17724
(d) been lost sight of, or have left London221840648

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Stamford House remand home
The report set out below has been received from Dr. John D. W. Pearce, parttime
medico-psychologist at Stamford House remand home.
During the year 2,188 children and young persona were admitted, of whom 1,732 were
male and 456 were female. There was a decrease of 143 in the admission rate compared with 1937.

Table: The variation in admission rate is shown below:—

The variation in admission rate is shown below:—

19301935193619371938
Admissions from all areas7852,4202,6082,3312,188
„ „ London area6951,4361,8811,9851,908
„ „ out-county areas90984727346280

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The general observations made on the figures for the previous year apply equally to the
subjoined records.