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Croydon 1968
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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Providing Croydon adopts an increasingly restrictive policy towards the
admission of children from outside the Borough, existing provision would
seem to be sufficient to meet these needs.
| Category | Age on the 31st December, 1968 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 years | 4 years | 3 years | 2 years | 1 year or less | |
| Vision Defect | 0 | 1 | 2 | ||
| Hearing Defect | - | 4 | 6 | 4 | |
| Mental Disorder | 4 | 21 | 12 | 22 | 10 |
| Epileptic | - | 4 | - | 1 | |
| Physically Handicapped or Delicate | 1 | 18 | 20 | 23 | 22 |
| 5 | 45 | 37 | 54 | 36 | |
BLIND AND PARTIALLY SIGHTED PUPILS
Blind Partially Sighted
In Residential Schools 6 5
In Day Schools - 18
Blind
Two blind children were ascertained during the year, and admitted to
appropriate residential special schools.
Partially Sighted
During the year four children were found to require special educational
treatment in this category, and three of them were admitted to St. Luke's
School. It is pleasing to report that one family moved into the area after
seeing the facilities at St. Luke's School expressly so that their child
could attend there. The fourth child ascertained in this category during
1968 presented many problems and his out of school care caused such difficulties
that it was not possible to secure the assessment period at St.Luke's
School which had been hoped. He has been admitted to a residential institution
for further investigation.
I am grateful to Miss J. Rundle for the following report of the work of
the School during 1968.