Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Heston and Isleworth]
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There are, however, in the district a certain number of children who suffer from various degrees of partial deafness; these children I set out below:—
Name. | Sex. | Date of Birth. | School attended. |
---|---|---|---|
W.M. | F. | 4-4-00 | Nil. |
G.W. | F. | 4-11-00 | Isleworth Blue Girls. |
E.B. | F. | 4-8-01 | do. do. |
W.C. | F. | 13-12-01 | Hounslow Town Girls. |
W.H. | M. | 2-9-03 | Worple Road Mixed. |
J.R. | M. | 16-11-04 | Grove Road Infants. |
F.K. | M. | 2-3-05 | St. Mary's Boys. |
L.S. | M. | 17-3-05 | Isleworth Blue Boys. |
F.S. | M. | 3-4-05 | Hounslow Heath Boys. |
F.T. | M. | 20-4-05 | Hounslow Town Boys. |
C.H. | M. | 6-9-05 | Hounslow Roman Catholic Mixed. |
A.C. | M. | 22-6-07 | Spring Grove Infants. |
R.M. | M. | 5-I0-07 | Worple Road |
G.S. | M. | 24-6-O8 | Worple Road Infants. |
E.S. | F. | 21-9-08 | Hounslow Town Infants. |
G.S | M. | 30-9-08 | do. do. do. |
Mentally Abnormal Children.
A preliminary classification has been made of those children
who have come to rny knowledge as being mentally abnormal.
At present no special means are taken to educate these children,
whom one finds collected together in the lower standards in the
school. In most cases the progress made by the ordinary methods
of education is practically nil after a hard year's work. These
children are very trying to the teacher, and if any endeavour is