[Report 1946] / Medical Officer of Health, Birkenhead County Borough.
- Birkenhead (England). County Borough Council.
- Date:
- 1946
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1946] / Medical Officer of Health, Birkenhead County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![MULTIPLE DEFECTS SUMMARY Educationally sub-normal and Epileptic Educationally sub-normal and Physically Defective Educationally sub-normal and Maladjusted Educationally sub-normal and Defect of Speech .... Educationally snh-normal and Delicate Epileptic and Educationally snh-noi‘inal Epileptic and Unedncahle .• Deaf and Educationally sid)-normal ! Partially blind and l<:dncationally snh-nonnal Partially blind and Partially deaf Physically defective and Maladjusted Physically defective and Educationally snh-norinal Maladjusted and Defect of speech ....^ Below is a classification of tlie defects from whicli sighted children suffer : the partiallv \ Congenita] Clataract ^ 1 Myopia c. Hypermetropia 3 Myopic Astigmatism and Myopia 1 Myopic Astigmatism 4 Nystagmus and Optic atrophy : 1 Coloboma of iris and choroid , 1 Coloboma of iris with leucoma 1 Ruphthamas 1 Nystagmus , 1 20 TUBERCUT.OUS CHIT.DREN i i I Only children diagnosed as tuberculous and requiring treatment ^ for tuberculosis a't a sanatorium, a dispensary, or elsewhere are recorded % in this category. Children suffering from crip])ling due to tuberculosis j which is regarded as being no longer in need of treatment are recorded 1 as crippled children, provided that the degree of crippling conforms to the description of a crippled child given in paragraph 3 (j) of the Handi- | capped Pupils and School Health Service Regulation, 1945. All other | tuberculous children who are regarded as being no longer in need of J treatment are recorded as delicate children provided the Medical Officer -1 is prepared to certify under Regulation 3 (e) of the Handicapped J Pupils and School Health Service Regulations, 1945, that they are 1 incapable, by reason of such defect, of receiving projser benefit from the instruction in ordinary schools. 3 I.—CHILDREN SUFFERING FROM NON-PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS I (Including pleura and intra-thoracic glands) J Number on register at 31st December, 1946 50 .M IL—CHILDREN SUFFERING FROM NON-PTTLMONARY TI^ERCULOSIS 3 (This category includes tuberculosis of all sites other than those m shown in (I) above). a Number on register at 31st December, 1946 19 S](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28927400_0046.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
