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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 1938

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]

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Table: TABLE III.Return of all Exceptional Children in the Area.

TABLE III.

Return of all Exceptional Children in the Area.

At Certified Schools for the Blind.At Public Elementary Schools.At Other Institutions.At no School or Institution.Total.
12......113

Table: PARTIALLY BLIND CHILDREN.Only children who, though they cannot read ordinary school books or cannot read them without injury to their eyesight, have such power of vision that they can appropriately be taught in a school for the partially blind are included.Children who are able by means of suitable glasses to read the ordinary school books used by children without fatigue or injury to their vision are not included in this Table.

PARTIALLY BLIND CHILDREN.

Only children who, though they cannot read ordinary school books or cannot read them without injury to their eyesight, have such power of vision that they can appropriately be taught in a school for the partially blind are included.

Children who are able by means of suitable glasses to read the ordinary school books used by children without fatigue or injury to their vision are not included in this Table.

At Certified Schools for the Blind.At Certified Schools for the Partially Blind.At Public Elementary Schools.At other Institutions.At no School or Institution.Total.
...4516...162

Table: DEAF CHILDREN.Only children who are so deaf that they can only be appropriately taught in a school for the deaf are included.

DEAF CHILDREN.

Only children who are so deaf that they can only be appropriately taught in a school for the deaf are included.

At Certified Schools for the Deaf.At Public Elementary Schools.At other Institutions.At no School or Institution.Total.
14.........14

Table: PARTIALLY DEAF CHILDREN.Only children who can appropriately be taught in a school for the partially deaf are included.

PARTIALLY DEAF CHILDREN.

Only children who can appropriately be taught in a school for the partially deaf are included.

At Certified Schools for the Deaf and Partially Deaf.At Public Elementary Schools.At other Institutions.At no School or Institution.Total.
62......8