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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 III.—continued.
MENTALLY DEFECTIVE CHILDREN.
Feeble-Minded Children.
Mentally Defective children are children who, not being imbecile and not
being merely dull and 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 delect of receiving benefit from
instruction in Special Schools for mentally defective children.

Table: This category includes only those children for whose education and maintenance the Local Education Authority are responsible, and excludes all children who have been notified to the Local Authority under the Mental Deficiency Act.

This category includes only those children for whose education and maintenance the Local Education Authority are responsible, and excludes all children who have been notified to the Local Authority under the Mental Deficiency Act.

At Certified Schools for Mentally Defective Children.At Public Elementary Schools.At other Institutions.At no School or Institution.Total.
14–––14

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EPILEPTIC CHILDREN.
Children Suffering from Severe Epilepsy.

Table: In this part of the Table only those children are included who are epileptic within the meaning of the Act, i.e.,children who, not being idiots or imbeciles, are unfit by reason of severe epilepsy to attend the ordinary Public Elementary Schools.

In this part of the Table only those children are included who are epileptic within the meaning of the Act, i.e.,children who, not being idiots or imbeciles, are unfit by reason of severe epilepsy to attend the ordinary Public Elementary Schools.

At Certified Special Schools.At Public Elementary Schools.At other Institutions.At no School or Institution.Total.
1–––1

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PHYSICALLY DEFECTIVE CHILDREN.
Physically defective children are children who, by reason of physical defect,
are incapable 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 physically defective
children.
A. Tuberculous Children.
Cases diagnosed as tuberculous and requiring treatment for tuberculosis at a
sanatorium, a dispensary, or elsewhere. Children suffering from crippling due to
tuberculosis which is regarded as being no longer in need of treatment should be
recorded as crippled children, provided that the degree of crippling is such as to
interfere materially with a child's normal mode of life. All other cases of tuberculosis
regarded as being no longer in need of treatment should be recorded as
delicate children.