[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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![TABLED tS 3—continued C.—CRIPPLED CHILDREN This section is confined to children (other than those diagnosed as suffering from tuberculosis and in need of treatrnen.t for that disease) who are suffering from a degree of crippling sufficiently severe to interfere materially witli a child’s normal mode of life, i.e., children who generally speaking are unable to take part, \i\ any complete sense, in physical exercises or games or such activities of the school curricu- lum as gardening or forms of handwork usually engaged in by other children, and in whose case the Medical Officer is })re]jared to certify under Section 55 of the Education Act, 1921, that they are incapable by reason of such physical defect of receiving proj)er benefit from the instruction in the ordinary I'^ublic Elementary Schools. At At At At Certified Public Elementary other no School or Total Special Schools Schools Institutions Institution — 13 — ' 3 16 D.—CHILDREN WITH HE.VRT DISE.\SE This section is confined to children in whose case the Medical Officer is prepared to certify, under Section 55 of the Lklucation Act, 1921, that they are incapable by reason of such physical defect of receiving proper benefit from the instruction in the ordinary Public Elementary Schools. At Certified Special Schools At Public Elementary Schools At other Institutions At ' no School or Institution 1 Totid — 31 — 13 44 CHILDEEN SUFFEEING FEOM MULTIPLE DEFECTS Mental defect and epilepsy 1 Mental defect and crippling 2 Mental defect and heart disease 1 All these children are at Certified Special Schools.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28927291_0122.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
