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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

East Ham 1933

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

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Table III—continued.
Deaf Children.
A deaf child is a child who is too deaf to be taught in a class of hearing
children in an elementary school.

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

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

At Certified Schools for the Deaf.At Public Elementary Schools.At other Institutions.At no School or Institution.Total.
18–——18

Table: Partially Deaf Children.Enter in this Section only children who can appropriately be taught in a school for the partially deaf.

Partially Deaf Children.

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

At Certified Schools for the Deaf.At Certified Schools for the Partially Deaf.At Public Elementary Schools.At other Institutions.At no School or Institution.Total.
——1——1

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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.
This category includes only those children for whose education and maintenance
the Local Education Authority are responsible, and should exclude
all children who have been notified to the Local Authority under the Mental Deficiency Act.

Table: Details of such children should be given on Form 307M.

Details of such children should be given on Form 307M.

At Certified Schools for Mentally Defective Children.At Public Elementary Schools.At other Institutions.At no School or Institution.Total.
8432—89

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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.