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Hendon 1937

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hendon]

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Table: TABLE III.— continued.EPILEPTIC CHILDREN.CHILDREN SUFFERING FROM SEVERE EPILEPSY.In this part of the Table only those children should be included who are epileptic within the meaning of the Act, i.e., children who, not being idiots or imbeciles, are unfit by reason of severe epilepsy to attend the ordinary Public Elementary Schools.For practical purposes the Board are of opinion that children who are subject to attacks of major epilepsy in school should be recorded as "severe" cases and excluded from ordinary Public Elementary Schools.

TABLE III.— continued.

EPILEPTIC CHILDREN.

CHILDREN SUFFERING FROM SEVERE EPILEPSY.

In this part of the Table only those children should be included who are epileptic within the meaning of the Act, i.e., children who, not being idiots or imbeciles, are unfit by reason of severe epilepsy to attend the ordinary Public Elementary Schools.

For practical purposes the Board are of opinion that children who are subject to attacks of major epilepsy in school should be recorded as "severe" cases and excluded from ordinary Public Elementary Schools.

At Certified Special Schools.At Public Elementary Schools.At other Institutions.At no School or Institution.Total.
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PHYSICALLY DEFECTIVE CHILDREN.
A. TUBERCULOUS CHILDREN.
Tuberculous children in areas other than Counties or County
Boroughs who have been ascertained by the County Tuberculosis Officer
should not appear in the Table for the County but in the Table for
the appropriate area.
Only children diagnosed as tuberculous and requiring treatment for
tuberculosis at a sanatorium, a dispensary, or elsewhere should be
recorded in this category. Children suffering from crippling due to
tuberculosis which is regarded as being no longer in need of treatment
should be recorded as crippled children, provided that the degree of
crippling conforms to the description of a crippled child given at the
head of Section C below. All other tuberculous children who are
regarded as being no longer in need of treatment should be recorded as
delicate children provided the Medical Officer is prepared to certify under
Section 55 of the Education Act, 1921, that they are incapable by reason
of physical defect of receiving proper benefit from the instruction in
the ordinary Public Elementary Schools.

Table: I.—CHILDREN SUFFERING FROM PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS.(Including pleura and intra-thoracic glands.)

I.—CHILDREN SUFFERING FROM PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS.

(Including pleura and intra-thoracic glands.)

At Certified Special Schools.At Public Elementary Schools,†At other Institutions.At no School or Institution.Total.
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