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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
Tottenham 1960
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Tottenham]
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disturbance or other causative factors, further referral to the appropriate specialist is indicated
The Handicapped Child
| Category | In Special Day Schools | In Special Residential Schools | In Maintained Primary & Secondary Schools | In Independent Schools | Not at School | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B | G | B | G | B | G | B | G | B | G | B | G | |
| Blind Pupils | - | - | 5 | 2 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 5 | 3 |
| Partially Sighted Pupils | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | 4 |
| Deaf Pupils | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | 6 |
| Partially Deaf Pupils | 10 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | 2 | - | 15 | 9 |
| Educationally Sub-normal Pupils | 64 | 45 | 14 | 2 | 4 | - | 1 | - | - | - | 83 | 47 |
| Epileptic Pupils | - | - | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 2 | 2 |
| Maladjusted Pupils | - | - | 13 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 14 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 34 | 11 |
| Physically Handicapped Pupils | 15 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | 4 | 1 | 27 | 15 |
| Pupils with Speech Defects | 3 | - | - | 1 | 208 | 1ll | 9 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 227 | 116 |
| Delicate Pupils | 2 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 14 | 16 |
| Pupils with Multiple Defects | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 7 | 5 |
| Totals | 105 | 84 | 55 | 22 | 221 | 114 | 26 | 11 | 18 | 3 | 425 | 234 |
| Grand Totals | 189 | 77 | 335 | 37 | 21 | 659 | ||||||
Rheumatism Supervisory Centre
Fortnightly sessions continued to be held in the paediatric department of the Prince of
Wales's General Hospital under the direction of Dr. Ian M.Anderson, M.D., F.R.C.P., consultant
paediatrician. The number of new cases seen during the year was nine. Of these, five were
female and four male:-
Rheumatic Fever 5
Innocent Cardiac Murmur (other cases) 2
Streptococcal State (Allergy) 2
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202 children remain on the register of the supervisory centre, and of these, 52 made 108
attendances, while in addition a number were seen in the ordinary paediatric out-patient sessions
These 202 cases were classified as follows:-
| Rheumatic Fever | 64 |
| Rheumatic Carditis | 42 |
| Rheumatic carditis with chorea | 5 |
| Chorea uncomplicated | 5 |
| Rheumatic arthritis | 5 |
| Congenital heart lesions | 54 |
| Rheumatic pains | 1 |
| Streptococcal Allergy | 3 |
| Other cases | 23 |
| 202 | |
| 96 males | |
| 106 females |