[Report 1930] / School Medical Officer, Somerset County Council.

  • Somerset Council
Date:
1930
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    These 200 feohle-niiiuled children are eciuivaleiit to 7 per 1,000 of the total number of children on the registers of the Elementary Schools. Mental Examinations.—During the past' year lot) children were examined and certified for the first time, and d.l were re-exa.niined for re-grading or certification for Special Schools or Institutions. The results of these examinations are shown below :— First examination— Boys Girls Re-examined— Boys Girls Schedule A. Schedule B. Schedule C. Totals. Fit for education in an Elementary School. Fit for Special Class for dull and backward children. Fit for Special School. Unfit for Special School. 8 .. 39 39 10 96 3 17 25 9 54 1 1 64 19 150 -- ±i 0 2 17 0 0 4 12 0 16 A 29 o 35 u 11 62 93 19 185 The periodical mental examinations made at the Special Schools are not included in this table. The District School Medical Inspectors are responsible for the examination of all suspected mentally defective children of school age in their areas. Dr. Stirling, the Assistant County School Medical Officer, has been responsible for the Weston-super-Mare area. Dr. W. G. Parker was Visiting Officer for the Sand¬ hill Park Special School for Girls and Farm Colony. Epileptic Children, The classification of epileptic children is difficult as the severity and frequency of the attacks vary from a mild fit once or twice a year to numerous severe fits daily. Excluding children with mental defect, the majority of the juvenile epileptics in the County are of the nnilder grade. As will be seen from Table III., 21 are classified “severe” and 41 “not severe,” e(]uivalent to an incidence of 0.5 and 0.06 per 1,000 of the school population respectively.