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Heston and Isleworth 1914

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Heston and Isleworth]

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Partially Deaf.

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.4-4-00Nil.
G.W.F.4-11-00Isleworth Blue Girls.
E.B.F.4-8-01do. do.
W.C.F.13-12-01Hounslow Town Girls.
W.H.M.2-9-03Worple Road Mixed.
J.R.M.16-11-04Grove Road Infants.
F.K.M.2-3-05St. Mary's Boys.
L.S.M.17-3-05Isleworth Blue Boys.
F.S.M.3-4-05Hounslow Heath Boys.
F.T.M.20-4-05Hounslow Town Boys.
C.H.M.6-9-05Hounslow Roman Catholic Mixed.
A.C.M.22-6-07Spring Grove Infants.
R.M.M.5-I0-07Worple Road
G.S.M.24-6-O8Worple Road Infants.
E.S.F.21-9-08Hounslow Town Infants.
G.SM.30-9-08do. 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