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Hendon 1938

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hendon]

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Table: TABLE III.—continued.PARTIALLY DEAF CHILDREN.Enter in this Section children who can appropriately be taught only in a school for the partially deaf.

TABLE III.—continued.

PARTIALLY DEAF CHILDREN.

Enter in this Section children who can appropriately be taught only in a school for the partially deaf.

At Certified Schools for the Deaf and Partially Deaf.At Public Elementary Schools.At other Institutions.At no School or Institution.Total.
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MENTALLY DEFECTIVE CHILDREN.
FEEBLE-MINDED CHILDREN.
Mentally Defective children are children who, not being imbecile
and not being merely dull or backward, are incapable by reason of
mental defect of receiving proper benefit from the instruction in the
ordinary Public Elementary Schools but are not incapable by reason
of that defect of receiving benefit from instruction in Special Schools
for mentally defective children.

Table: Particulars relating to these children should be entered in the return of notified children— Form 307M.

Particulars relating to these children should be entered in the return of notified children— Form 307M.

At Certified Schools for Mentally Defective Children.At Public Elementary Schools.At other Institutions.At no School or Institution.Total.
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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.

Table: For practical purposes the Hoard are or 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.

For practical purposes the Hoard are or 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.
—1——1