Annual report for the year 1903 (6th year of issue) / Metropolitan Asylums Board.

  • Metropolitan Asylums Board (London, England)
Date:
1904
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Credit: Annual report for the year 1903 (6th year of issue) / Metropolitan Asylums Board. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ANNUAL REPORT OF THE CHILDREN’S COMMITTEE FOR THE YEAR 1903. April, 1904. I.—GENERAL. Scope of 1. With the conclusion of the sixth year of our work there appears to the report ^e a near Pl‘osPect of the completion of the provision for the separate treatment and education of those classes of children, chargeable to the metropolitan guardians of the poor, whose separation from normal children was decided upon as a result of the labours of the departmental committee on poor law schools in 1896. In the following sections of this report will be found set forth the present position with regard to the five classes of children referred to, viz.:— (a) Children suffering from ophthalmia or other contagious disease of the eye; (b) Children suffering from contagious disease of the skin or scalp ; (c) Children requiring either special treatment during convalescence or the benefit of seaside air ; (e?) Children who, by reason of defect of intellect or physical infirmity, cannot properly be trained in association with children in ordinary schools; and (e) Children who are ordered by two justices or a magistrate to be taken, under the Industrial Schools Act, 1866 [and Youthful Offenders’ Act, 1901], to a workhouse or an asylum of the district. Meetings. 2. During the year we held 23 meetings, and in addition our various sub-committees held 259 meetings, of which about 40 were at the office of the Board and the remainder away from that centre. The corresponding figures for previous years were: 1898. 1899. 1900. 1901. 1902. f 1903. Committee meetings 24 21 23 23 22 23 Sub-committee meetings 40 76 107 135 193 259 Total 64 97 130 158 215 ^ 282 Total
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