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Hillingdon 1969
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hillingdon]
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Report of the Principal School Medical Officer for the Year 1969
HANDICAPPED PUPILS REGISTER FOR 1969
The various categories of handicapped pupils are defined and were explained in my report for 1965. The following table gives details of handicapped pupils and placings in special schools during the year.
| Category | Number of Children Placed in | Total | New Cases Referred to Local Education Authority during 1969 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day Special Schools | Day Special Classes | Residential Special Schools | Ordinary Schools, Home Tuition etc. | |||||||||
| Boys | Girls | Boys | Girls | Boys | Girls | Boys | Girls | Boys | Girls | Boys | Girls | |
| A Blind | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | – | 2 | 1 | – | 1 |
| B Partially Sighted | 4 | 3 | – | – | – | 2 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 8 | 3 | – |
| C Deaf | 4 | 2 | – | – | 1 | 2 | – | – | 5 | 4 | – | – |
| D Partially Hearing | 2 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 12 | 26 | 21 | 5 | 4 |
| E Educationally Sub-normal | 111 | 80 | – | 1 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 124 | 89 | 38 | 21 |
| F Epileptic | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | 21 | 3 | 22 | 4 | 7 | 2 |
| G Maladjusted | 28 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 20 | 6 | 9 | 2 | 61 | 14 | 18 | 5 |
| H Physically Handicapped | 17 | 19 | – | – | 2 | – | 58 | 32 | 77 | 51 | 10 | 5 |
| I Speech Defect | – | – | – | – | 2 | – | 192 | 65 | 194 | 65 | 94 | 31 |
| J Delicate | 3 | – | – | – | 14 | 10 | 125 | 79 | 142 | 89 | 38 | 23 |
| Children with Multiple Defects | 27 | 16 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 44 | 28 | 2 | 3 |
| TOTALS | 197 | 127 | 14 | 10 | 58 | 31 | 437 | 206 | 706 | 374 | 215 | 95 |
The following table gives an indication of the number of children between five and fifteen years of age who have been reported under Section 57 of the Education Act, 1944, during the past few years, and those who are placed informally.
| Year of Birth | NORMAL ENVIRONMENT | HOSPITAL CASES | OTHER PLACINGS | GRAND TOTAL | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Section 57 cases | Informal cases | Section 57 cases | Informal cases | Section 57 cases | Informal cases | |||||||||
| Boys | Girls | Boys | Girls | Boys | Girls | Boys | Girls | Boys | Girls | Boys | Girls | Boys | Girls | |
| 1965 | – | – | 6 | 8 | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | 6 | 9 |
| 1964 | – | – | 9 | 6 | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 10 | 6 |
| 1963 | – | – | 8 | 11 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 8 | 11 |
| 1962 | – | 3 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | 1 | 1 | 6 | 10 |
| 1961 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 9 | 6 |
| 1960 | 4 | 7 | – | 1 | 2 | 1 | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | – | 7 | 10 |
| 1959 | 8 | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 9 | 1 |
| 1958 | 5 | 2 | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 6 | 2 |
| 1957 | 3 | 4 | – | – | 3 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 6 | 5 |
| 1956 | 5 | 2 | 1 | – | 3 | 2 | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | 9 | 5 |
| 1955 | 2 | 1 | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | 3 | 3 |
| TOTALS | 32 | 22 | 29 | 33 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 79 | 68 |