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 Barking]
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Diagnosis | Boys | Girls | |
---|---|---|---|
I. | (i) Children incapable of receiving benefit or further benefit from instruction in a Special School: | ||
(a) Idiots | 1 | — | |
(b) Imbeciles | — | — | |
(c) Others | 2 | — | |
(ii) Children unable to be instructed in a Special School without detriment to the interests of other children : | |||
(a) Moral defectives | — | — | |
(b) Others | — | — | |
2. | Feeble-minded children notified on leaving a Special School on or before attaining the age of 16 | 6 | 1 |
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 TOTALS | 9 | 1 |
Number of children for whom spectacles were prescribed :—
(a) Under the Authority's Scheme
(b) Otherwise
Total
613
65
678
Number of children who obtained spectacles :—
(a) Under the Authority's scheme
(b) Otherwise
Total
593
60
653