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Acton 1939
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Acton]
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STATEMENT OF THE NUMBER OF CHILDREN NOTIFIED DURING
THE YEAR ENDED 31st DECEMBER, 1939, BY THE LOCAL
EDUCATION AUTHORITY TO THE LOCAL MENTAL DEFICIENCY
AUTHORITY.
Total number of children notified 4
Analysis of the above total.
Diagnosis. Boys. Girls.
1. (i) Children incapable of receiving benefit or further
benefit from instruction in a Special Sdhool:
(a) Idiots — —
(b) Imbeciles 1 —
(c) Others — —
(ii) Children unable to be instructed in a Special School
without detriment to the interest of other children:
(a) Moral Defectives — —
(b) Others — —
2. Feeble-minded children notified on leaving a Special
School an or before attaining the age of 16 3 —
3. Feeble-minded children notified under Article 3, i.e.,
"Special circumstances" cases — —
4.. Children who in addition to being mentally defective
were blind or deaf — —
Grand Total 4 —
We are,
Your Obedient Servants,
G. E. B. PAYNE,
E. MADELEY.