London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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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 1938

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

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Table: T able III— continued.

T able III— continued.

At Certified Special Schools.At Public Elementary Schools.At other Institutions.At'' no School or Institution.Total.
5293239

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

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.
6491258

Table: 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

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.
44117——161

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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