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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 1938

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hendon]

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TABLE III.—continued.
B. DELICATE CHILDREN.

Table: At the same time it should be remembered that children should not be regarded as suitable for admission to an Open Air School unless the Medical Officer would be 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.

At the same time it should be remembered that children should not be regarded as suitable for admission to an Open Air School unless the Medical Officer would be 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.

At Certified Special Schools.At Public Elementary Schools.At other Institutions.At no School or Institution.Total.
1109323

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C. CRIPPLED CHILDREN.
This Section should be confined to children (other than those
diagnosed as tuberculous and in need of treatment for that disease)
who are suffering from a degree of crippling sufficiently severe to
interfere materially with a child's normal mode of life, i.e., children
who generally speaking are unable to take part, in any complete sense,
in physical exercises or games or such activities of the school curriculum
as gardening or forms of handwork usually engaged in by other children,
and in whose case the Medical Officer would be prepared to certify
under Section 55 of the Education Act, 1921, that they are incapable
by reason of such physical defect of receiving proper benefit from the
instruction in the ordinary Public Elementary Schools.
At
Certified
Special
Schools.
At
Public
Elementary
Schools.
At
other
Institutions.
At
no School
or
Institution.
Total.
3 11 2 2 18