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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
Acton 1933
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Acton]
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Diagnosis. Boyx. Girls.
1. (i) Children incapable of receiving benefit or further benefit
from instruction in a Special School :
(а) Idiots __ — —
(б) Imbeciles 1 2
(c) Others — —
(ii) Children unable to be instructed in a Special School
without detriment to the interest of other children :
(а) Moral defectives — —
(б) Others 1 1
2. Feeble-minded children notified on leaving a Special School
on or before attaining the age of 16 — —
3. Feeble-minded children notified under Article 3, i.e., " special
circumstancescases __ — —
4. Children who in addition to being mentally defective were
blind or deaf — —
Grand Total 2 3
We are,
Your obedient Servants,
D. J. THOMAS.
N. G. HOWELL.