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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 1957
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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CLINIC FOR EDUCATIONALLY SUB-NORMAL CHILDREN
220 children were examined during 1957. The classifications
arrived at, together with recommendations made, are as follows:-
(1) Found to be mentally defective:
(a) Found to be mentally defective and referred to
Local Authority and Occupation Centre ... 10
(b) Found to be mentally defective and referred to
Local Authority for Statutory Supervision 20
(c) Recommended Institutional Care and referred to
Local Authority 8
(2) Pound to be educationally sub-normal:
(a) Recommended to St. Christopher's Special
School 36
(b) Recommended to Residential School 6
(c) Referred to Slow Stream in Ordinary Elementary
School 38
(d) Recommended for re-test 20
(e) Deferred for Medical Treatment 6
(f) Recommended for St. Giles' 2
(g) Recommended for Epileptic Colony
(h) Referred back to Ordinary Elementary School 40
(3) Referred to Child Guidance Clinic 4
(4) Examined for other Authorities
190
Mental Tests at St. Christopher' s 30
220
6 home visits have been paid to Education cases.