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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

Barking 1934

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barking]

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Table: The following table shows the number of children who have attended at the Faircross Special School—in the Open-Air, Physically Defective and Mentally Defective Sections—and, in addition, in other parts of the report will be found figures as to how many children have been admitted to the Brookfield Orthopaedic Hospital and elsewhere for orthopaedic conditions :—

The following table shows the number of children who have attended at the Faircross Special School—in the Open-Air, Physically Defective and Mentally Defective Sections—and, in addition, in other parts of the report will be found figures as to how many children have been admitted to the Brookfield Orthopaedic Hospital and elsewhere for orthopaedic conditions :—

Open-Air SectionPhysically Defective SectionMentally Defective Section
No. on Register on 31.12.33973889
No. admitted during 1934341511
No. discharged during 1934471324
No. on Register on 31.12.34844076

Table: Hereunder are particulars of the number of children maintained by the Authority in special schools outside the district as at December 31st, 1934 :—

Hereunder are particulars of the number of children maintained by the Authority in special schools outside the district as at December 31st, 1934 :—

Particulars of School. No. of Cases.
(a)Certified Schools for the Blind :
East Anglian School for the Blind (Residential), Gorleston1
Barclay School for Blind Girls (Residential), Brighton1
(b)Certified School for the Deaf:
Frederick Road Deaf Centre (Day), West Ham5
(c)Certified School for Mentally Defective Children :
Royal Eastern Counties Institution (Residential), Colchester1
(d)Certified Schools for Physically Defective Children :
St. Dominic's Open-Air School (Residential), Hambledon, Surrey1
St. Patrick's Open-Air School (Residential), Hayling Island1
White Oak Ophthalmic Hospital School (Residential), Swanley, Kent2

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Where children are found to be so defective mentally as not to be able to receive
any useful instruction in a special school or class they are notified to the County
Council.