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

View report page

Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Walthamstow 1936

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Walthamstow]

This page requires JavaScript

Table: Statement of the Number or Children notified during the Year ended 31st December, 1936, by the Local Education Authority to the Local Mental Deficiency Authority.Total number of children notified, 19.Analysis of the above Total.

Statement of the Number or Children notified during the Year ended 31st December, 1936, by the Local Education Authority to the Local Mental Deficiency Authority.

Total number of children notified, 19.

Analysis of the above Total.

Diagnosis.Boys.Girls.
1. (i) Children incapable of receiving benefit or further benefit from instruction in a Special School:—
(a) Idiots1—
(6) Imbeciles31
(c) Others (ii) Children unable to be instructed in a Special School without detriment to the interests of other children:—11
(a) Moral Defectives——
(6) Others——
2. Feeble-minded children notified on leaving a Special School on or before attaining the age of 1684
3. Feeble-minded children notified under Article 3, i.e., "special oircumstances" cases Note.—No child should be notified under Article 3 until the Board have issued a formal certificate (Form 308M) to the Authority.——
4. Children who in addition to being mentally defective were blind or deaf Note.—No blind or deaf child should be notified without reference to the Board—see Article 2, proviso (ii).——
Grand Total136