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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
Edmonton 1920
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Edmonton]
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EPILEPSY.
There is insuperable difficulty in finding institutions willing to take in
sane epileptic children. Their presence in the public elementary schools,
as with mentally deficients, is a trial to the teachers, and, when fits occur,
disturbing to the scholars. The number of institutions in England is small
and the cost beyond the means of poor parents.