[Report 1951] / Medical Officer of Health, Dundee City.

  • Dundee City Council
Date:
1951
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Credit: [Report 1951] / Medical Officer of Health, Dundee City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Return of ALL Exceptional Children of School-Age in the Ares Session 1950-51 At At Special In Ordinary Schools or Insti- At 1Vo Disability Schools Classes tulion School Total 1. Blind, 2. Partially Sighted— (a) Refractive errors in which the curriculum of an ordi- nary school would adversely 9 9 affect the eye condition, ... (b) Other conditions of the eye, e.g., cataract, ulceration, etc., which render the child unable to read ordinary school books or to see well enough to be taught in an 11 11 ordinary school, 3. Deaf— 1 19 — — 20 Grade I 118 — — — 118 Grade II.a, 51 — — — 51 Grade Il.b, 1 3 — — 4 Grade III., 4. Defective Speech- fa) Defects of articulation re- quiring special educational 16 16 measures, (b) Stammering requiring spec- 151 — 151 ial educational measures, ... 5. Mentally Defective (Children be- tween 5 and 16 years)— 107 • 107 (a) Educable (I.Q. app. 50-70), (b) Ineducable (I.Q. generally 12 118 2 1 133 less than 50), 6. Epilepsy— — 39 19 13 71 (a) Mild and occasional, (b) Severe (suitable for care in 17 6 — 1 24 a residential school), 7. Physically Defective (Children between 5 and 16 years)— (a) Non-pulmonary tuberculosis 1 1 2 (excluding cervical glands), (b) General orthopaedic Condi- 9 21 — 1 31 tions, 763 48 — 3 814 (c) Organic heart disease, 48 18 — 2 6E (d Other causes of ill-health*, 8. Multiple Defects— — 47 — ;— 47 (i) 5b and 7b, — 7 3 3 13 (ii) 5b and 6a — 3 — 3 e (iii) 5b and 6b, — — 3 — 3 (ivj 5b and 1 — — — — — (v) 5a and 7b, 3 13 — 2 If (vi) 5a and 6a — 9 — — c (viij 5a and 6b, — — 2 — 2 (viiij 5a and 7d, — 14 — — 14 (ix) 5a and 3, 2 3 — — C (x) 5a and 1, — — — — — (xi) Other multiple defects. ... 31 40 — 5 7t (xii) 5b and 3 — 1 — — ] (xiiij 5b and 2b — — 1 — 1 (xiv) 5b and 7a — — — 1 1 (xvj 5a. and 7a — 2 — — 2 (xvi) 5a and 7c — 1 — — ] (xviij 5a and 2a 1 ] * Definition of ill-hcalth—“ Children who by reason of ill-health are unabl- to attend ordinary schools or are incapable of receiving proper benefit from the instruction in ordinary schools.”
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