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East Ham 1933

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]

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Table: TABLE III.RETURN OF ALL EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN IN THE AREA. Children Suffering from Multiple Defects.

TABLE III.

RETURN OF ALL EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN IN THE AREA. Children Suffering from Multiple Defects.

Information is only required of children suffering from any combination of the following types of defect :—
Blindness (Not Partial Blindness).
Deafness (Not Partial Deafness).
Mental Defect.
Epilepsy.
Active Tuberculosis.
Crippling (as defined in the penultimate category of the Table).
Heart Disease.

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The actual combination of defects should be stated on a separate sheet,
together with the type of school attended, e.g., in the case of a mentally
defective epileptic child, the return should show whether the school attended
is a school for mentally defective or for epileptic children.
State here the number of children suffering from 1 Blind
any combination of the above defects & M.D.
No school
Blind Children.
A blind child is a child who is too blind to be able to read the ordinary
school books used by children.

Table: Enter in this Section only children who are so blind that they can only be appropriately taught in a school for blind children.

Enter in this Section only children who are so blind that they can only be appropriately taught in a school for blind children.

At Certified Schools for the Blind.At Public Elementary Schools.At Other Institutions.At no School or Institution.Total.
3——14

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Partially Blind Children.
Enter in this Section only children who, though they cannot read ordinary
school books or cannot read them without injury to their eyesight, have such
power of vision that they can appropriately be taught in a school for partially
blind.

Table: Children who are able by means of suitable glasses to read the ordinary school books used by children without fatigue or injury to their vision should not be included in this Table.

Children who are able by means of suitable glasses to read the ordinary school books used by children without fatigue or injury to their vision should not be included in this Table.

At Certified Schools for the Blind.At Certified Schools for the Partially Blind.At Public Elementary Schools.At other Institutions.At no School or Institution.Total.
—276—437