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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 1935

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

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Table: Table III— continued

Table III— continued

At Certified Special Schools.At Public Elementary Schools.At other Institutions.At no School or Institution.Total.
61156—-217

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C. Crippled Children.
This Section should be confined to children (other than those
diagonised 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, ta 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,
and in whose case the Medical Officer would be nrenared to certifv under

Table: Section 55 of the Education Act, 1921, that they are incapable by reason of such physical defect of receiving proper benefit from the instruction in the ordinary Public Elementary Schools.

Section 55 of the Education Act, 1921, that they are incapable by reason of such 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 Schocfl or Institution.Total.
11414258

Table: D. Children with Heart Disease.This Section should be confined to children in whose case the Medical Officer would be prepared to certify, under Section 55 of the Education Act, 1921, that they are incapable by reason of such physical defect of receiving proper benefit from the instruction in the ordinary Public Elementary Schools.

D. Children with Heart Disease.

This Section should be confined to children in whose case the Medical Officer would be prepared to certify, under Section 55 of the Education Act, 1921, that they are incapable by reason of such 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.
15582681