Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Willesden]
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Certain Statistical Data.
No. of Public Elementary Schools at December, 1925 | 32 | |
No. of School Departments at December, 1925 | 74 | |
Average Public Elementary School Roll, year ended 31st March, 1925 | 21,649 | |
Total No. of Children medically inspected at Routine and Special Inspections | 13,332 | |
Total No. of Children dentally inspected | 13,550 | |
Total No. of Defects of every description "followed up" during 1925 | 27,519 | |
Total No. of Defects of every description for which treatment was obtained during 1925 | ||
Medical or Dental Treatment | 11,363 | |
Domestic Treatment | 6,367 | |
Total | 17,730 | |
Total No. of Attendances at the School Clinics during 1925 | 46,818 |
Special Schools.
No. of Physically Defective Schools 2 (1 school formerly for mentally
defective children was closed
on 25/7/17 and re-opened on
13/12/20 for physically defective
children).
No. of Mentally Defective Schools 1
No. of children attending Special Schools during 1925:—
Table No. 31.
In Willesden. | Outside Willesden. | Total. | |
---|---|---|---|
Blind and Partially Blind | — | 19 | 19 |
Deaf | — | 21 | 21 |
Mentally Defective | 124 | 5 | 129 |
Epileptic | — | 8 | 8 |
Physically Defective | 133 | 10 | 143 |
Total | 257 | 63 | 320 |
Table No. 32.—Corresponding to Appendix E of the Annual Report of the Chief Medical Officer of the Board of Education for 1919.
Form of Annual Return of the After-Careers of Children under 21 Years of Age Formerly
Attending Special Schools.
Furness Road Physically Defective School. | Leinster Road Mentally Defective School. | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
Boys. | Girls. | Boys. | Girls. | |
1. Number of children who have left the school and are under 21 years | 20 | 28 | 53 | 37 |
2. Number who:— | ||||
(a) Have since died | 2 | 4 | 1 | 3 |
(b) Are known to be incapable by reason of mental or physical defect of undertaking employment | 2 | - | 7 | 6 |
(c) Are in attendance at an Institution for further education (give details), and | †1 | † 1 | † 2 | - |
(d) Are in any other Institution (specify Asylum, Workhouse, Colony for Epileptics, &c.) | ††1 | * 1 | ** 7 | **3 |
3. Number who are employed in:— | ||||
(a) Industrial or manual occupations | 9 | 9 | 22 | 1 |
(6) Agricultural or rural occupations | - | - | 1 | - |
(c) Domestic occupations, including those who are helping in the domestic work at home | - | 6 | - | 18 |
(d) Commercial, professional or clerical work | 1 | 3 | 1 | |
(e) Blind alley or other precarious occupations | 2 | - | 5 | - |
4. Number who have left the neighbourhood or whose after-careers have not been traced | 2 | 4 | 7 | 6 |
† In attendance at Technical, or Secondary Schools for further education. †† In a Home for Cripples.
* In Caterham Asylum. ** In Institutions for Mentally Defectives.
4 Mentally Defectives and 4 Physically Defectives are unemployed.