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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
Bromley 1945
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bromley]
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SECTION D.
Handicapped Children.
The following table shows the number and classification of handicapped children in the records.
| At Residential Schools | At Special Day Schools | At Ordinary Day Schools | Private Schools | At no School or Institution | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (a) Blind | 2 | — | _ | — | 1 | 3 |
| (b) Partially sightec | — | — | 1 | — | 1 | 2 |
| (c) Deaf | 2 | — | 1 | — | — | 3 |
| (d) Partially Deaf . | — | — | 1 | — | — | 1 |
| (e) Delicate | 3 | — | 30 | — | — | 33 |
| (f) Diabetic | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| (g) Educationally sub normal | 11 | 5 | 31 | 2 | 11 | 60 |
| (h) Epileptic | 2 | 1 | 4 | — | 5 | 12 |
| (i) Maladjusted | 1 | — | 35 | — | — | 36 |
| (j) Physically defective | 6 | 1 | 12 | — | 2 | 21 |
| (k) Speech defects | — | — | 7 | — | — | 7 |
| Totals | 27 | 7 | 122 | 2 | 20 | 178 |
Tuberculosis.
Notified cases of children between the ages of 5 and 15 years.
Respiratory 17
Non-respiratory 27
Child Guidance.
The " problem child " we shall have with us always; but
there is a tendency to make this child solely the province of
the psychiatrist. There is much loose physchology in the public
mind, and whilst we can all obtain guidance from the skilled
Psychiatrist, we must not lose the wider view that the casual
fault is not in the child, but in the environmental home life of
the family, and that until we can remedy the disastrous housing
Problem of to-day, we shall make no real progress. This is
fundamental,
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