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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

West Ham 1933

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for West Ham]

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At Certified Schools for the Deaf.At Certified Schools for t he Partially Deaf.At Public Elementary SchoolsAt Other Institutions.At no School 0r Institution.Total.
11-7-—18

Table: Mentally Defective Children. Feeble-minded Children.

Mentally Defective Children. Feeble-minded Children.

At Certified Schools for Mentally Defective-Children.At Public Ele m§ntary SchoolsAt Other Institutions.At no School or Institution.Total.
18484-8226

Table: Children Notified by the Local Education Authority to the Local Mental Deficiency Authority.

Children Notified by the Local Education Authority to the Local Mental Deficiency Authority.

Diagnosis.BoysGirls
1.(i) Children incapable of receiving benefit or further benefit from instruction in a Special School:
(a) Idiots11
(b) Imbeciles66
(c) Others48
(ii) Children unable to be instructed in a Special School without detriment to the interests of other children :
(a) Moral defectives——
(b) Others—1
2.Feeble-minded children notified on leaving a Special School on or before attaining the age of 1682
3.Feeble-minded children notified under Article 3, i.e., "special circumstances" cases-
4.Children who in addition to being mentally defective were blind or deaf11
Number of children notified2019