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Havering 1965
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Havering]
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TABLE No. 14
| Total number of Pupils ascertained as handicapped at end of the year | Number of Pupils ascertained during the year | Number of Pupils admitted to Special Schools during the year | Total Number of Pupils in Special Schools at the end of the year | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day | Residential | ||||
| Blind | 1 | — | — | — | 1 |
| Partially sighted | 8 | 2 | 2 | 8 | — |
| Deaf | 9 | — | 1 | 6 | 3 |
| PartiallyHearing | 26 | 7 | 4 | 15 | 2 |
| Physically H'c'd | 85 | 9 | 5 | 31 | 9 |
| Delicate | 43 | 14 | 10 | 14 | 14 |
| Maladjusted | 32 | 7 | 3 | — | 19 |
| E.S.N | 318 | 65 | 33 | 208 | 17 |
| Epileptic | 11 | 2 | 3 | — | 4 |
| Speech Defects | — | – | — | — | — |
| Multiple Defects | 29 | — | — | 12 | 10 |
| Totals | 562 | 106 | 61 | 294 | 79 |
Most handicapped pupils are admitted to special schools,
either day or residential, but 103 handicapped children were able
to continue to attend normal schools despite their disabilities.
The only schools for handicapped pupils situated within the
Borough are the two day schools for educationally sub-normal
pupils. Other special schools attended by children from Havering
include:—
Day Schools
Ethel Davis School, Goodmayes
Branwood School, Grays
Joseph Clarke School, Walthamstow
William Morris School, Walthamstow
West Ham School for the Deaf
(Physically handicapped — with
special unit for spastic children)
(Delicate)
(Partially sighted)
(Deaf and partially hearing)
(Deaf and partially hearing)
Residential Schools
High View School, Chigwell
Ramsden Hall School, Billericay
Royal School for the Deaf, Margate
East Anglian School, Yarmouth
Dorton House School, Sevenoaks
Homestead School, Colchester
Nazeing Park School, Nazeing
Lingfield Hospital School, Lingfield
St. Elizabeth's School, Much Hadham
Trueloves School, Ingatestone
Black Notley Hospital School
(Educationally sub-normal)
(Educationally sub-normal)
(Deaf and partially hearing)
(Deaf and partially sighted)
(Blind)
(Maladjusted)
(Maladjusted)
(Epileptic)
(Epileptic)
(Physically Handicapped)
(Physically Handicapped)
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