Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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In addition 391 children were considered with regard to maladjustment and
18 with regard to diabetes.
Accommodation
Tables 18 to 28 in the appendix show the results of the above examinations. Day Special Schools
Defect | No. of schools | Roll |
---|---|---|
Partially sighted | 6 | 407 |
Deaf | 4 | 331 |
*Partially deaf | 4 | 88 |
Physically handicapped | 19 | 1,535 |
Delicate | 10 | 1,239 |
Educationally subnormal | 24 | 2,858 |
*Maladjusted (in day classes) | 11 | 161 |
*Speech defectives (in day classes) | 21 | 662 |
Total | 99 | 7,281 |
* Special classes held in normal schools.
No. of schools | Accommodation Residential | Defect | Day | Roll |
---|---|---|---|---|
Blind | 2 | 80 | 30 | 78 |
* Deaf and partially deaf | 3 | 152 | 62 | 152 |
Physically handicapped | 2 | 119 | — | 107 |
Delicate | 7 | 431 | — | 400 |
Educationally subnormal | 6 | 498 | — | 480 |
Diabetic | 1 | 63 | — | 53 |
Maladjusted | 3 | 94 | — | 93 |
24 | 1,437 | 92 | 1,363 |
* Including Rayners for dual defects.
In addition to the handicapped children in the Council's own residential special schools there were at the end of the year 863 of the Council's children in non-Council residential special schools catering for the following defects :—
Blind | 48 |
Partially sighted | 7 |
Deaf and partially deaf | 36 |
Physically handicapped | 54 |
Delicate | 248 |
Educationally subnormal | 88 |
Epileptic | 65 |
Maladjusted | 312 |
Speech defect (Moor House) | 5 |
Total | 863 |
Hospital schools and groups
The Council provided education for children in the following seven hospitals, the first four of which are recognised as hospital special schools. Tuition was given to groups in the remainder under section 56 of the Education Act, 1944 :—
Average roll | |
---|---|
Goldie Leigh | 79 |
Guy's (and Evelina) | 93 |
St. Mary's, Paddington | 18 |
Maudsley and Bethlem Royal | 41 |
Victoria Hospital for Children | 16 |
Hammersmith | 10 |
Whittington | 19 |
In addition there are many London children in hospital schools outside the County
particularly in the long-stay children's hospitals taken over from the Council by
regional hospital boards in 1948.