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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 1954
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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CLINIC FOR EDUCATIONALLY SUB-NORMAL CHILDREN
300 children were examined during 1954. The classifications
arrived at, together with recommendations made, are as follows:-
(1) Pound to be mentally defective:
(a) Pound to be mentally defective and referred to
Local Authority and Occupation Centre 4
(b) Pound to be mentally defective and referred to
Local Authority for Statutory Supervision 14
(c) Recommended Institutional Care and referred to
Local Authority 6
(2) Pound to be educationally sub-normal:
(a) Recommended to St, Christopher's Special
School 42
(b) Recommended to Residental School 2
(c) Referred to Slow Stream in Ordinary Elementary
Schoo1 30
(d) Recommended for re-test 30
(e) Deferred for Medical Treatment 28
(f) Recommended for St. Giles' 2
(g) Recommended Epileptic Colony -
(h) Referred back to Ordinary Elementary School 60
(3) Referred to Child Guidance Clinic 18
(4) Examined for other Authorities 1
237
Mental Tests at St. Christopher 'S 63
300
10 home visits have been paid to Education cases.