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Croydon 1960

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]

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32
EPILEPTIC SCHOOL CHILDREN
36 epileptics were known to School Health Services as at
31. 12.60.
Of these - 14 were attending Ordinary School
8 were in Day School for Physically Handicapped
and Delicate Children
4 were attending our day E. S. N. School
3 were at Lingfield school
2 were in Hospital (1 at St. Lawrence's
Hospital and 1 at Quesn Mary's Hospital)
1 was at the Occupation Centre
2 were in Residential School (1 at Drayton
Manor and 1 at St. Elizabeth's)
1 was at Private Day School
1 was at Private Residential School
NON-MAINTAINED SCHOOLS
The usual arrangements for the medical inspection of nonmaintained
school children were continued in I960, 170 children
were examined at routine examinations. Appendix C gives the
detailed findings.
Yours faithfully,
S. L. WRIGHT,
School Medical Officer.