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 Croydon]
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286 children were examined during 1952. The classifications arrived at, together with recommendations made, are as follows : —
(1) Found to be mentally defective: | |
17 | |
3 | |
(c) Recommended Institutional Care and referred to Local Authority | 6 |
(2) Found to be educationally sub-normal: | 37 |
(b) Recommended to Residential School | 4 |
(c) Referred to Slow Stream in Ordinary Elementary School | 18 |
(d) Recommended for re-test | 47 |
(e) Deferred for Medical Treatment | 3 |
(f) Recommended for St. Giles' | 3 |
1 | |
(h) Referred back to Ordinary Elementary School | 85 |
(3) Referred to Child Guidance Clinic | 18 |
(4) Examined for other Authorities | 3 |
245 | |
Mental Tests at St. Christopher's | 41 |
286 |