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Walthamstow 1937

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Walthamstow]

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The comparative result and the classification adopted were as follows:-

Grading Test I. Q.Binet Simon I.Q.Classification.
155Mentally Defective.
295Average.
36993Average.
46780Dull and Backward.
56985Dull and Backward.
66769Mentally Defective.
791Dull and Backward.
86587Dull and Backward.
96990Dull and Backward.
106976Mentally Defective.
1156Mentally ,,
12Aphasic.

In view of the classification as mentally defective of 4 out of
the 11 children tested in 1937, the routine use of the Grading Test
appears to be of definite value in the preliminary ascertainment of
the mentally defective.

The correlations of 1937 may be compared with that of similar tests in 1935 (page 67, School Medical Officer's report) as follows:—

Binet Simon I. Q.'s.1937.1935.
90 to 9944
80 to 8937
70 to 791
60 to 691
50 to 592

School for Mentally Defective Children.— Your Authority
provides a special school with accommodation for 130 children.

At the end of 1937 the classification, according to the lates available intelligence quotients, was as follows:—

1937.1936.1935.1934.
Intelligence Quotient 80 to 892344
,, ,,70 to 79581122
,, ,, 60 to 6920282920
,, ,, 50 to 5916161012
,, ,, 40 to 494158
30 to 391
Not recently tested2311
Totals49596167

A special visit is paid to the school every term, and all cases
considered to be ineducable by the Head Teacher are carefully
reviewed and, if necessary, excluded and notified to the County
Council for supervision.