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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
Croydon 1925
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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| Mentally defective (and still under care of Education Committee | 111 |
| Epileptic—severe grade | 11 |
| slighter grade | 15 |
| Physically defective— | |
| Infectious pulmonary and glandular tuberculosis | 7 |
| Non-infectious, but active glandular tuberculosis | 106 |
| Active non-pulmonary tuberculosis | 33 |
| Delicate (pre-tubercular, anaemia, etc.) | 188 |
| Crippled (other than tuberculosis) | 130 |
Table III. in the Appendix indicates the extent to which suitable
educational provision has been made for these children. For
the first time an entry is included of the number of children receiving
education at the school for physically defective children, opened
by the Committee in Winterbourne Road early in 1924. The
school is doing valuable service already, and its potentialities are
very great.
Mentally Defective Children.
It will be seen from Table III. at the end of the report that
there are 111 mentally defective children of school age in the
Borough known to the school medical department as capable of
some degree of education in a special school.
. The reasons for discharge from the school were as follows:—
| Over school age | 8 |
| Removed from Borough | 1 |
| Allowed to leave for special reasons | 9 |
| Excluded for misbehaviour | 1 |
| 19 |
Particulars as to the mid-day meal given to the children ate
given in the report for 1924.