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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TABLE 3 - Aetiology or factors associated with handicap in children admitted to Kingsley Hall.
Aetiology or associated factor | No. | Aetiology or associated factor | No. |
---|---|---|---|
(a) Mental Retardation | (d) Hearing Loss | ||
Down's syndrome | 19 | Familial deafness | 1 |
Mosaic Down's syndrome | 1 | Moebius syndrome | 1 |
Deletion of short arm of chromosome 18 | 1 | Rubella syndrome | 3 |
Postmeningitic deafness | 1 | ||
Rubenstein - Taybi syndrome | 1 | Cause unassigned | 3 |
Tay - Sach's disease | 1 | ||
Rubella syndrome | 1 | (e) Visual Loss | |
Toxoplasmosis | 1 | Congenital cateracts | 3 |
Threatened abortion | 1 | Congenital corneal opacities | 1 |
Antepartum haemorrhage | 1 | Congenital aniridia | 1 |
Prematurity | 7 | Hydrocephalus | 1 |
Birth asphyxia | 6 | Retrolental fibroplasia | 1 |
Birth trauma | 3 | Retinoblastoma | 1 |
Dysmaturity | 1 | Cause unassigned | 1 |
Hydrocephalus | 2 | ||
Pseudohypoparathyroidism | 1 | (f) Speech Disorder | |
Hypercalcaemia | 1 | Developmental delay | 3 |
Autism | 3 | Mental retardation (E.S.N.) | l |
Meningitis | 2 | Maladjustment | 1 |
Motor accident | 1 | Motor dysphasia | 1 |
Cause unassigned | 29 | ||
(b) Cerebral Palsy | (g) Locomotor disorders | ||
Prematurity | 5 | Muscular dystrophy | 2 |
Thalidomide | 1 | ||
Birth trauma | 4 | Poliomyelitis | 1 |
Birth asphyxia | 2 | Still's disease | 1 |
Rubella syndrome | 2 | ||
Arrested hydrocephalus | 1 | ||
Intracranial haemorrhage | 3 | ||
Cause unassigned | 6 | ||
(c) Other diseases of the Central Nervous System | |||
Marcus Gunn syndrome (agenesis of 9th & 10th cranial nerve) | 1 | ||
Epilepsy | 4 | ||
Inoperable brain tumour | 1 |