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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

Walthamstow 1933

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Walthamstow]

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Table: Children who are able by means of suitable glasses to read the ordinary school books used by children without fatigue or injury to their vision should not be included in this Table.

Children who are able by means of suitable glasses to read the ordinary school books used by children without fatigue or injury to their vision should not be included in this Table.

At Certified Schools for the Blind.At Certified Schools for the Partially Blind.At Public Elementary Schools.At other InstitutionsAt no School or Institution.Total
47———47

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Deaf Children.
A deaf child is a child who is too deaf to be taught in a class of
hearing children in an elementary school.

Table: Enter in this Section only children who are so deaf that they can only be appropriately taught in a school for the deaf.

Enter in this Section only children who are so deaf that they can only be appropriately taught in a school for the deaf.

At Certified Schools for the Deaf.At Public Elementary Schools.At other Institutions.At no School or Institution.Total.
9+ 6 Aphasia———15

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Partially Deaf Children.

Table: Enter in this Section only children who can appropriately be taught in a school for the partially deaf.

Enter in this Section only children who can appropriately be taught in a school for the partially deaf.

At Certified Schools for the Doaf.At Certified Schools for the Partially Deaf.At Public Elementary Schools.At other Institutions.At no School or Institution.Total.
2————2

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Mentally Defective Children.
FEEBLE-MINDED CHILDREN.
Mentally Defective children are children who, not being imbecile
and not being merely dull or backward, are incapable by reason of
mental defect of receiving proper benefit from the instruction in the
ordinary Public Elementary Schools but are not incapable by reason
of that defect of receiving benefit from instruction in Special
Schools for mentally defective children.
This category includes only those children for whose education and
maintenance the Local Education Authority are responsible, and
should exclude all children who have been notified to the Local
Authority under the Mental Deficiency Act. Details of such children
should be given on Form 307M.