[Report 1938] / Medical Officer of Health, Ramsgate Borough.

Ramsgate (England). Borough Council.

Date:: 1938

Catalogue details

Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Credit: [Report 1938] / Medical Officer of Health, Ramsgate Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

63/72 (page 59)

DEAF CHILDREN. A deaf child is defined by Section 69 of the Edcation Act, 1921, as one who is “ too deaf to be taught in a class of hearing children in an elementary school.” This definition covers some children who are totally, or almost totally, deaf and can only be appropriately taught in a school for deaf children, and others who have partial hearing and can be appropriately taught in a school for partially deaf children. Only the first class should be included in this section. At Certified Schools for the Deaf. At Public Elementary Schools. At other Institutions. At no school or Institution. Total. 2 —- — 2 PARTIALLY DEAF CHILDREN. Enter in this Section children who can appropriately be taught only in a school for the partially deaf. At Certified Schools for the Deaf. At Certified Schools for the Partially Deaf. At Public Elementary Schools. At other Institutions. At no School or Institution. Total. — — — 1 1 MENTALLY DEFECTIVE CHILDREN. FEEBLE-MINDED CHILDREN. Mentally Defective children are children who, not being imbecile and not being merely dull or backward, are incapable by reason of mental defect of receiving proper benefit from the instmction in the ordinary public elementary schools, but are not incapable by reason of that defect of receiving benefit from instruction in special schools for mentally defective children. At Certified Schools for Mentally Defective Children. At Public Elementary Schools. At other Institutions. At no school or Institution. Total. — 2 —- 5 7 EPILEPTIC CHILDREN. CHILDREN SUFFERING FROM SEVERE EPILEPSY. In this part of the Table only those children should be included who are epileptic within the meaning of the Act, i.e., children who, not being idiots or imbeciles, are unfit by reason of severe epilepsy to attend the ordinary Public Elementary Schools. For practical purposes the Board are of opinion that children who are subject to attacks of major epilepsy in school should be recorded as “ severe ” cases and excluded from ordinary public elementary schools.