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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
Kingston upon Thames 1967
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kingston-upon-Thames]
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The following table shows the placement of Kingston children in special schools:
| Category | Number attending at end of 1967 | Recommended for placement - parents refused consent | Receiving home tuition | On waiting list for special school | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day Special Schools | Boarding Special Schools | |||||||||||
| Kingston | Other | Other | ||||||||||
| Boys | Girls | B | G | B | G | B | G | B | G | B | G | |
| Blind | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Partially Sighted | - | - | 2 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Deaf | - | - | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Partially Hearing | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Educationally Subnormal | 53 | 31 | - | - | 4 | 2 | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 | - |
| Epileptic | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Maladjusted | 3 | 1 | - | - | 18 | 5 | - | - | 3 | - | 2 | - |
| Physically Handicapped | 15 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | - | - | 3 | 1 | - | - |
| Delicate | 1 | - | - | - | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Speech Defect | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Totals | 72 | 40 | 9 | 8 | 33 | 14 | 1 | - | 7 | 1 | 3 | - |
Bedelsford School, Grange Road. Kingston
I am grateful to Mr.E.C.Cooke, Headmaster, for the following
report:
There are 77 children on roll and all are severely physically
handicapped except for two boys with asthma.
It is of interest that there are only two cases of anterior
poliomyelitis and both children are paralysed as a result of the 1955
epidemic. None have been admitted since so it seems that this will not
be a problem in the future, due to the anti-polio immunisation.