[Report 1935] / Medical Officer of Health, Birkenhead County Borough.
- Birkenhead (England). County Borough Council.
- Date:
- 1935
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1935] / Medical Officer of Health, Birkenhead County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![TABLE S 3—Continued PHYSICALLY DEFECTIVE CHILDREN A.—TUBERCULOUS CHILDREN Only children diagnosed as tuberculous and requiring treatment for tuberculosis at a sanatoriuiu, a disqeusary, or elsewhere are recorded in this category. Children suffering froui crijqding due to tuberculosis which is regarded as being no longer in need of treatment are recorded as crippled children, ]jrovided that the degree of crijqding conforujs to the descri})tio]i of a crijqded child given at the head of Section C below. All other tuberculous children who are regarded as being no longer in need of treatment are recorded as delicate children ju’ovided the Medical Officer is pre])ared to certify under Section oo of the Kdu<-ation Act. 1921, that they are inca];a})le by reason of physical defect of receiving proper benefit from the instruction in the ordinary Public Iclementary Schools. I.—CHILDREN SUFFERING FROM PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS (Including pleura and intra-thoracic glands) At At At At Certified Public Elementary other 1 no School or Total Special Schools Schools Institutions Institution 1 2.3 — i 27 IT.—CHILDREN SUFFERING FROM NON-PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS (This category includes tuberculosis of all sites other than those shown in (I) above) At At At A, ' Certified Public Elementary other no School or Total Special Schools Schools Institutions Institution 37 204 — 3 244 B.—DELICATE CHILDREN This section is confined to children (except those included in other groups) whose general health renders it desirable that they should be specially selected for admission to an Oi^en Air School. Such children are included irrespective of the actual provision of Open Air Schools in the area, or of the practicability in present circumstances of sending the children to Residential Schools. Children are not regarded as suitable for admission to an Open Air School unless the Medical Officer is prepared to certify under Section oo of the Ifducalion Act, 1921, that they are incapable by reason of i)hysical defect of receiving proper benefit from tlie instruction in the ordinary Public Elementary Schools. At At At At Certified Public Elementary other no School or Total Special Schools Schools Institutions Institution — 14 — 1 15 * *Thege figures must not be regarded in any way as complete. In the event of an open-air school being established, a rapid survey will be made and suitable cases selected.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28927291_0121.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
