London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Enfield 1967
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Enfield]
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TABLE 60
HANDICAPPED CHILDREN
Children in Special Schools
| Category | Day | Residential |
|---|---|---|
| Blind | 2 | 1 |
| Partially sighted | 7 | 3 |
| Deaf | 12 | 3 |
| Partially hearing | 18 | 5 |
| Educationally subnormal (ascertained) | 99 | 20 |
| (not ascertained) | 75 | — |
| Delicate | 84 | 22 |
| Epileptic | — | 2 |
| Physically handicapped | 35 | 10 |
| Maladjusted | 7 | 47 |
| Ten children with more than one defect are included in the category of their major defect | ||
VACCINATION AND IMMUNISATION
| Number of parents approached for consent | 1,446 |
| Number of parents who consented | 1,195 |
| Number of children given Tuberculin Test (Heaf Gun) | 1,182 |
| Number of children found to be positive | 114 |
| Number of children found to be negative | 1,048 |
| Number of Tuberculin Tests not read | 16 |
| Number of children to be retested | 4 |
| Number of children given B.C.G. vaccination | 1,042 |
| Number of children found to be negative but not vaccinated | 6 |
| Doubtful first degree positives in 1966 retested | 6 |
| Number found to be positive | 3 |
| Number found to be negative | 3 |
| Number given B.C.G. vaccination | 3 |