[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Sutton] page 102

Sutton 1972

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Sutton]

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TABLE IV

THE HANDICAPPED PRE SCHOOL CHILD

LIST OF HANDICAPS, IN DEFINED CATEGORIES, ON THE OBSERVATION AND HANDICAP REGISTER

Category No.	Nature of Handicap
1	Visual handicaps	11
2	Auditory handicaps	9
3	Language and speech handicaps	3
4	Epilepsy	5
5	Cerebral palsy	5
6	Spina bifida and hydrocephalus	17
7	Muscular dystrophy and other muscular disorders	3
8	Metabolic and endrocrine handicaps	5
9	Alimentary disorders	7
10	Cardiovascular disease	27
11	Respiratory disease	14
12	Genito-urinary disorders	11
13	Educationally subnormal	21
14	Severe educational subnormality	14
15	Maladjusted/Autistic/Psychotic	1
16	Battered Baby Syndrome	11
17	Blood disease	5
18	Limb and skeletal abnormalities	23
19	Chronic illness (neo-plastic)	-
20	Skin diseases	5
21	Other conditions	17
22	Chromosomal abnormalities (including monogolism)	14
	TOTAL HANDICAPS	228
	Number of children included above who have multiple handicaps	15