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East Ham 1934

[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.

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.
1818

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.
11

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 mentallv defective children.

The following table should include all such children except those who have been notified to the Local Authority under the Mental Deficiency Act in accordance with Article 3 of the Mental Deficiency (Notification of Children) Regulations, 1928. Particnlars relating to these children should be entered in the return of notified children—Form 307M.

At Certified Schools for Mentally Defective Children.At Public Elementary Schools.At other Institutions.At no School or Institution.Total.
776 private schools83

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.