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Croydon 1966
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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TABLE 10
Children Requiring Special Education, 1966
| CATEGORY | New Cases Ascertained by Committee | New Admissions | Number of children receiving special educational treatment 19.1.67 | No. of children awaiting placement on 19.1.67 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Special Schools | Independent Schools | Hospitals | Day Units | Home Tuition | Total | ||||||
| Day | Residential | Day | Residential | ||||||||
| BLIND | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 2 | |||||
| PARTIALLY SIGHTED | 4 | 5 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 23 | - | 1 | ||
| DEAF | 2 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 16 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| PARTIALLY HEARING | 16 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 15 | 26 | 10 | - | |||
| EDUCATIONALLY SUBNORMAL | 68 | 44 | 228 | 19 | 6 | 253 | 40 | 5 | |||
| EPILEPTIC | 2 | 1 | 18 | 5 | 23 | - | 2 | ||||
| MALADJUSTED | 14 | 9 | 5 | 8 | 19 | 6 | 1 | 39 | - | 9 | |
| PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED | 30 | 28 | 95 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 116 | 5 | - | |
| SPEECH | 10 | 13 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 17 | 2 | ||||
| DELICATE | 13 | 8 | 47 | 8 | 3 | 20 | 5 | 83 | - | • - | |
| TOTAL | 161 | 112 | 428 | 74 | 31 | 25 | 33 | 12 | 603 | 56 | 22 |
*Including cases ascertained in previous years.
In March 1966 the Department of Education and Science (Circular
9/66) and the Ministry of Health (Circular 7/66) issued a joint circular
asking local authorities to review their facilities for handicapped children
and various recommendations were made for improvements in cooperation
between individual Departments of the Corporation and between
the Health Department and local hospitals and local general practitioners.
In general the existing arrangements were thought to be satisfactory,
but it was felt that some improved liaison was possible when the child
was about to leave a special school, particularly a residential special
school. In addition some improvements were possible in the care of the
pre-school handicapped child. Progress was already being made in both
these fields before the issue of the circular, and the recommendations
which were made were largely those which had already been shown to be
satisfactory on an experimental basis. At present there are 96 pre-school
handicapped children known to the Service, and their likely disabilities
are shown in Table 11. These statistics must be interpreted cautiously