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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

Richmond upon Thames 1933

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Richmond]

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Table: Table II.— continued.B. Number of Individual Children found at Routine Medical Inspection to require Treatment (excluding Uncleanliness and Dental Diseases).

Table II.— continued.

B. Number of Individual Children found at Routine Medical Inspection to require Treatment (excluding Uncleanliness and Dental Diseases).

Group.Number of Children.Percentage of Children found to require treatment.
Inspected.Found to require Treatment.
(1)(2)(3)(4)
Code Groups: Entrants324278.33
Intermediates364349.34
Leavers417215.04
Total (Code Groups)1105827.42
Other Routine Inspections6269.68

Table: Table III. — Return of all Exceptional Children in the Area.CHILDREN SUFFERING FROM MULTIPLE DEFECTS.

Table III. — Return of all Exceptional Children in the Area.

CHILDREN SUFFERING FROM MULTIPLE DEFECTS.

Blindness (NOT Partial Blindness).
Deafness (NOT Partial Deafness).
Mental Defect.
Epilepsy.
Active Tuberculosis.
Crippling (as defined in the penultimate category of the Table).
Heart Disease.
Number of children suffering from any combination of the above defects2

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BLIND CHILDREN.
A blind child is a child who is too blind to be able to read the ordinary
school books used by children.

Table: Only children who are so blind that they can only be appropriately taught jn a school for blind children are included in this table.

Only children who are so blind that they can only be appropriately taught jn a school for blind children are included in this table.

At Certified Schools for the Blind.At Public Elementary Schools.At other Institutions.At no School or Institution.Total.
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