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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
Hounslow 1965
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hounslow]
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| A. Number of handicapped children who were newly assessed as needing special | |||
| educational treatment at special schools or in boarding homes | 1 | — | |
| B. Number of children newly placed in special schools (other than hospital special | |||
| schools) or boarding homes | |||
| a. Of those included at A above | — | — | |
| b. Of those assessed prior to Jan 1965 | — | — | |
| c. Total newly placed B(a) and (b) | — | — | |
| C. On 20th January 1966 | |||
| a. Children requiring places in special schools other than hospital special | day | — | — |
| schools | boarding | 1 | — |
| b. Children included at C(a) who had not reached the age of 5 were | day | — | — |
| awaiting | boarding | 1 | — |
| c. Children included at C(a) who had reached the age of 5 but whose parents had | day | — | — |
| refused consent to their admission to a special school, were awaiting | boarding | — | — |
| d. Children included at C(a) had been awaiting admission to special schools for | day | — | — |
| more than one year | boarding | — | — |
| D. On 20th January 1966 the following number of children from the Authority's area— | |||
| a. Were on the registers of— | |||
| Maintained special schools (other than hospital special schools and special units | day | — | 11 |
| and classes not forming part of a special school) regardless by what authority they are maintained | boarding | 1 | 1 |
| Non-maintained special schools (other than hospital special schools and special | day | — | — |
| units and classes not forming part of a special school) wherever situated | boarding | 4 | 1 |
| Independent schools under arrangements made by the authority | — | — | |
| b. Were boarded in homes and not already included in D(a) | — | — | |
| Total D | 5 | 12 | |
| Number of children who are awaiting places or who are receiving special education | |||
| in special schools or who are boarded in homes—Total of sections C(a) and D | 6 | 12 | |
| E. On 20th January 1966— | |||
| The following number of handicapped pupils (irrespective of the area to which | |||
| they belong) were being educated under arrangements made by the authority in | |||
| accordance with Section 56 of the Education Act 1944 | |||
| a. In hospitals | — | — | |
| b. In other groups (eg units for spastics, convalescent homes etc) | — | — | |
| c. At home | — | — |