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East Ham 1937

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

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Table III— continued.

At Certified Special Schools.At Public Elementary Schools.At other Institutions.At no School or Institution.Total.
725941

II.—Children Suffering from Non-Pulmonary Tuberculosis.

(This category includes 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.
12561473

B. Delicate Children.

This Section is 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.

At Certified Special Schools.At Public Elementary Schools.At other Institutions.At no School or Institution.Total.
59152211

C. Crippled Children.
This Section is 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 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,
and in whose case the Medical Officer would be prepared to certify under