[Report 1946] / School Medical Officer of Health, Rutland County.

  • Rutland (England). County Council.
Date:
1946
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Credit: [Report 1946] / School Medical Officer of Health, Rutland County. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    RUTLAND COUNTY COUNCIL EDUCATION C 0,.iM M I T T E E __ REPORT OF THE SCHOOL MEDICAL OFFICER FOR THE YEAR 1946. - The main activity of the medical side of the Ministry of Education concerns itself'with the arrangements to be adopted for the teaching of handicapped children. Included among these are blind and partially sighted children, deaf and partially deaf children, delicate children ( including those with sub-normal nutrition, anaemia, chorea, debility following infectious disease, chronic pulmonary conditions, other than tuberculosis, such as bronchiectasis), diabetic pupils, educationally sub-normal children, epileptic children, comprising both major and minor epilepsy. A child who has severe nocturnal fits at night only may continue to attend ordinary school, while on the other hand a child with minor epilepsy may require residential accommodation. Maladjusted pupils are emotionally unstable or show psychological disturbance. Backward children should not be included in this category. Physically handicapped children include children who have been treated in sanatoria, orthopaedic, and heart hospitals. They overlap with delicate children but are more severely afflicted. Children with speech defects include those who stammer, those with aphasia; those with defect of voice or articulation not due to deafness. Aghasic children are those who have no defect of hearing but who speak either very indistinctly or not at all. They exhibit a certain amount of confusion in their expression of written language. After the age of two a,parent may compel the Authority to provide education for his child although the child is not at this age at school, but most of the cases, will receive no attention until admission to school.. The school teachers must call the attention of the School Medical Officer to them, v/ho will advise the Authority. An Educational Psychologist must be appointed. The following estimate is given Blind children Partially sighted children Deaf children Partially deaf children Delicate children Diabetic children Epileptic childreb Educationally subnormal Maladjusted children physically handicapped Children with speecn defects 0.2 to 0.3 per 1000 1 per 1000 0.7 to 1 per 1000 1.0 per 1000 1 to 2 per 1000 No estimate 0.2 per 1000 10 per cent of 1000 1 per cent of 1000 5 to 8 per 1000 1.5 to 3 per cent o registered pupils. ff ft It II, II II II II II II II II II II II II 1000