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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: Table III— continued.For practical purposes the Board are of opinion that children who an subject to attacks of major epilepsy in school should be recorded as " severe ' cases and excluded from ordinary Public Elementary Schools.

Table III— continued.

For practical purposes the Board are of opinion that children who an subject to attacks of major epilepsy in school should be recorded as " severe ' cases and excluded from ordinary Public Elementary Schools.

At Certified Special Schools.At Public Elementary Schools.At other Institutions.At no School or Institution.Total.
3—––3

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Physically Defective Children.
Physically Defective children are children who, by reason of physical
defect, are incapable 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 physically
defective children.
The exact classification of physically defective children is admittedly a
matter of difficulty. Valuable information, however, will be obtained if
School Medical Officers will record these defective children as accurately as
possible under the selected sub-headings.
A. Tuberculous Children.
In this category should be placed only cases diagnosed as tuberculous and
requiring treatment for tuberculosis at a sanatorium, a dispensary, or elsewhere.
Children suffering from crippling due to tuberculosis which is regarded as being
no longer in need of treatment should be recorded as crippled children, provided
that the degree of crippling is such as to interfere materially with a child's
normal mode of life. All other cases of tuberculosis regarded as being no
longer in need of treatment should be recorded as delicate children.

Table: I.—Children Suffering from Pulmonary Tuberculosis. (Including pleura and intra-thoracic glands.)

I.—Children Suffering from Pulmonary Tuberculosis. (Including pleura and intra-thoracic glands.)

At Certified Special Schools.At Public Elementary Schools.†At other Institutions.At no School or Institution.Total.
929—240

Table: II.—Children Suffering from Non-Pulmonary Tuberculosis.(This category should include tuberculosis of all sites other than those shown in (I) above.)

II.—Children Suffering from Non-Pulmonary Tuberculosis.

(This category should include tuberculosis of all sites other than those shown in (I) above.)

At Certified Special Schools.At Public Elementary Schools.†At other Institutions.At no School or Institution.Total.
19572785

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† It is essential that tuberculous children who are, or may be, a source of infection to
others should be promptly excluded from Public Elementary Schools.