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Below are given some statistics relating to this service:—
Number tuberculin tested after parents' consent had been
received 723
Heaf Mantoux
Positive result 75 73
Negative result 648 650
Number who received B.C.G 648
HANDICAPPED PUPILS
A summary is given below of the ascertainment and placement
of handicapped pupils during the year: —
Category
No. of pupils
ascertained
during 1958
No. of pupils
admitted to
Total No. of
pupils in
Special
during
Day
School
year
Residential
Special
as at
Day
Schools
1.12.58
Residential
Deaf
1
1
—
4
2
Partially deaf
—
—
—
5
—
Blind
1
—
2
—
4
Partially sighted
—
—
—
2
1
Epileptic
—
—
—
—
—
Delicate
5
3
2
11
7
Physically Handicapped
4
2
-
15
2
Educationally Sub-Normal
10
7
-
40
-
Maladjusted
1
-
1
-
6
Speech
-
-
-
-
-
Totals
22
13
5
77
22
Faircross School. At the end of the year there were 201 pupils
at Faircross Special School distributed as follows:—
Barking Other Districts
E.S.N. Section 40 80
Open Air Section 26 55
E.S.N. Section. During the year 6 children left the E.S.N.
Section on ceasing to be of compulsory school age (1 Barking and 5
out-of-district)—all were recommended for supervision by the Local
Health Authority under Section 57(5) of the Education Act, 1944.
Five children (1 Barking and 4 out-of-district) were found to
be ineducable and recommended for action under Section 57(3) of the
Education Act, 1944.
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