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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 1961

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]

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Table: APPENDIX GDEAF AND PARTIALLY DEAF CHILDREN OF SCHOOL AGE December 31st, 1961 Numbers attending Special schools or Units:

APPENDIX G

DEAF AND PARTIALLY DEAF CHILDREN OF SCHOOL AGE December 31st, 1961 Numbers attending Special schools or Units:

(a) Day Schools:
Old Kent Road11
Oak Lodge6
Holman Hunt2
(b) Residential Schools:
Ovingdean9
Hamilton Lodge2
Mill Hall, Cuckfield1
Margate1
Mary Hare Grammar1
Burwood Park Technical1
Rudolph Steiner (Aberdeenshire)1
John Horniman (for speech defects)1
Total36
(21 of these 36 children are of secondary school age).

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Numbers attending Croydon Day Schools:
(a) with hearing sufficiently impaired to require
regular auditory training:
Primary School Pupils 45
Secondary school Pupils 51
Total 96
(b) with hearing loss not severe enough to require
regular auditory training, but who need to be
tested regularly:
Primary School Pupils 127
Secondary School Pupils 18
Total 145
Total Number of Croydon School children with impaired
hearing of all grades of severity:
Children of Primary school age 187
Children of Secondary School age 90
Total 277
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