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East Ham 1934

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

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Table: Table III— continued.B. D elicate C hildren.This Section should be confined to children (except those included in other groups) whose general health renders it desirable that they should be specially selected for admission to an open Air School. Such children should be included irrespective of the actual provision of Open Air Schools in the area, or of the practicability in present circumstances of sending the children to Residential Schools. At the same time it should be remembered that children should not be regarded as suitable for admission to an Open Air School unless the Medical Officer would be prepared to certify that they are incapable by reason of physical defect of receiving proper benefit from the instruction in the ordinary Public Elementary Schools.

Table III— continued.

B. D elicate C hildren.

This Section should be confined to children (except those included in other groups) whose general health renders it desirable that they should be specially selected for admission to an open Air School. Such children should be included irrespective of the actual provision of Open Air Schools in the area, or of the practicability in present circumstances of sending the children to Residential Schools. At the same time it should be remembered that children should not be regarded as suitable for admission to an Open Air School unless the Medical Officer would be prepared to certify that they are incapable by reason of physical defect of receiving proper benefit from the instruction in the ordinary Public Elementary Schools.

At Certified Special Schools.At Public Elementary Schools.At other Institutions.At no School or Institution.Total.
66175——241

Table: C. C rippled C hildren.This Section should be confined to children (other than those diagnosed as tuberculous and in need of treatment for that disease) who are suffering from a degree of crippling sufficiently severe to interfere materially with a child's normal mode of life, i.e., children who generally speaking are unable to take part, in any complete sense, in physical exercises or games, or such activities of the School curriculum as gardening or forms of handwork usually engaged in by other children.

C. C rippled C hildren.

This Section should be confined to children (other than those diagnosed as tuberculous and in need of treatment for that disease) who are suffering from a degree of crippling sufficiently severe to interfere materially with a child's normal mode of life, i.e., children who generally speaking are unable to take part, in any complete sense, in physical exercises or games, or such activities of the School curriculum as gardening or forms of handwork usually engaged in by other children.

At Certified Special Schools.At Public Elementary Schools.At other Institutions.At no School or Institution.Total.
17484271

Table: D. C hildren with H eart D isease.This Section should be confined to children whose defect is so severe as to necessitate the provision of educational facilities other than those of the Public Elementary School.

D. C hildren with H eart D isease.

This Section should be confined to children whose defect is so severe as to necessitate the provision of educational facilities other than those of the Public Elementary School.

At Certified Special Schools.At Public Elementary Schools.At other Institutions.At no School or Institution.Total.
31513489