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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

Hendon 1925

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hendon]

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Table: table III. Return of all Exceptional Children in the Area, 1925.

table III. Return of all Exceptional Children in the Area, 1925.

Boys.Girls.Total.
Blind (including partially blind)(i) Suitable for training in a School or Class for the totally blind.Attending Certified Schools or Classes for the Bluind1-1
Attending Public Elementary Schools---
At other Institutions---
At no School or Institution---
(ii) Suitable for training in a School or Class for the partially blind.Attending Certified Schools or Classes for the Blind---
Attending Public Elementary Schools ...---
At other Institutions---
At no School or Institution---
Deaf (including deaf and dumb and partially deaf).(i) Suitable for training in a School or Class for the totally deaf or deaf and dumb.Attending Certified Schools or Classes for the Deaf112
Attending Public Elementary Schools---
At other Institutions-_-
At no School or Institution1-1
(ii) Suitable for training in a School or Class for the partially deaf.Attending Certified Schools or Classes for the Deaf---
Attending Public Elementary Schools---
At other Institutions---
At no School or Institution---
Mentally Defective.Feebleminded (cases not notifiable to the Local Control Authority).Attending Certified Schools for Mentally Defective Children123
Attending Public Elementary Schools5712
At other Institutions---
At no School or Institution1-1
Notified to the Local Control Authority during the year.Feebleminded---
Imbeciles---
Idiots---
Epileptics.Suffering from severe epilepsy.Attending Certified Special Schools for Epileptics1-1
In Institutions other than Certified Special Schools---
Attending Public Elementary Schools---
At no School or Institution---
Suffering from epilepsy which is not severe.Attending Public Elementary Schools At no School or Institution325
Physically Defective.Infectious pulmonary and glandular tuberculosis.At Sanatoria or Sanatorium Schools approved by the Ministry of Health or the Board---
'At other Institutions_--
At no School or Institution---
Non-infectious but active pulmonary and glandular tuberculosis.At Sanatoria, or Sanatorium Schools approved by the Ministry of Health or the Board---
At Certified Residential Open Air Schools---
At Certified Day Open Air Schools---
At Public Elementary Schools---
At other Institutions---
At no School or Institution---
Delicate children (e.g., pre-or latent tuberculosis, malnutrition, debility, ansemia, etc.)At Certified Residential Open Air Schools---
At Certified Day Open Air Schools---
At Public Elementary Schools132033
At other Institutions---
At no School or Institution---
Active non-pulmonary tuberculosis.At Sanatoria or Hospital Schools approved--
by the Ministry of Health or the Board--_
At Public Elementary Schools--_
At other Institutions---
At no School or Institution---
Crippled Children (other than those with active tuberculous disease), e.g., children suffering from paralysis, etc., and including those with severe heart disease.At Certified Hospital Schools--_
At Certified Residential Cripple Schools---
At Certified Day Cripple Schools---
At Public Elementary Schools131831
At other Institutions---
At no School or Institution112