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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 1952
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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Table 17.—
| Type of case | Blind | Partially-sighted | Deaf | Partially-deaf | Special School for the | Delicate, boarding | Maladjusted, boarding | Physically handicapped, day | Physically handicapped, boarding | Ordinary school | Ordinary school with special treatment | Decision postponed (pending treatment, etc.) | Unsuitable for school (e.g. ineducable) | Individual tuition at home or in hospital | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Educationally subnormal, day | Educationally subnormal, boarding | Epileptic, boarding | Delicate, day | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| B | G | B | G | B | G | B | G | B | G | B | G | B | G | B | G | B | G | B | G | B | G | B | G | B | G | B | G | B | G | B | G | B | G | |
| Vision | 14 | 3 | 61 | 51 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 10 | 5 | 32 | 40 | 1 | 0 | - | ||||
| Hearing | - | - | 31 | 23 | 23 | 19 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | -- | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 8 | 9 | 26 | 32 | 8 | 4 | - | - | ||||
| Educationally subnormal | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 379 | 265 | 70 | 43 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 202 | 100 | 475‡ | 224‡ | 25 | 15 | 82 | 47 | - | - | |
| Maladjusted | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 131 | 54 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 130* | 30 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Epilepsy | - | - | - | - | - | 3† | 3† | - | 7 | 3 | - | 7 | 7 | - | 14 | 14† | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | - | ||||||||||
| Physically handicapped | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 171* | 106* | 7* | 7* | 21* | 20* | - | - | - | - | - | - | 35 | 37 |
| Delicate | - | - | - | - | -- | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 413 | 286 | 739 | 448 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
* Attendance at special classes part-time. * See (b) below.
† Includes children for whom restrictions on certain physical activities have been prescribed (e.g. gymnastics).
‡Represents those children who were recommended to attend ordinary school with special coaching following statutory examination. It does not include children
for whom special coaching has been provided by the head teacher on the advice of the Council's educational psychologists, etc.