[Report 1933] / Medical Officer of Health, Edinburgh City.

  • Edinburgh (Scotland). City Council.
Date:
1933
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Credit: [Report 1933] / Medical Officer of Health, Edinburgh City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The disposal of these was as follows :— Passed for Special Schools *55 Passed for Special Schools (on probation) 11 Considered dull 102 Considered backward . . . . . . . . .31 Continued for further consideration 37 Considered ineducable . . . . . . . . . fl5 Considered more physically than mentally defective . . . . 13 Recommended for admission to Certified Institutions Admitted to Royal Blind Asylum ....... 1 Recommended for instruction by Voluntary Teacher .... I Considered normal (“ behaviour ” cases) ...... 4 277 * Included in this figure are 4 children who were transferred from Occupation Centre to Special Schools. f 12 of this number were considered suitable for Occupation Centre. t 4 were admitted to Gogarburn Institution ; I to St. Joseph's ; 1 was over- age ; and in one case parents refused consent. There were 483 mentally defective pupils on the roll at the end of the session. These have been classed according to the progress made during the session :— Good ......... 241 or 50 per cent. Fair 166 „ 34.3 Little progress 76 „ 157 69 pupils left during the session. The reasons for leaving were as follows :— Transferred to other Special Schools, 12 ; sent to Institution, 12 ; over age, 28 ; medically exempted, 7 ; left district, 6 ; granted temporary exemption before attaining 16 years, 3 ; ineducable, 1. The temporary exemption granted is conditional upon satisfactory reports at : specified intervals being received from the Medical and Attendance Departments; the pupil s name is not removed from the school roll. In the case of pupils leaving to go to work, inquiry is made by the teacher as to the nature of the work, and advice given as to the work for which the pupil is best suited. The number of educable defective children maintained by the Education Com- mittee in certified Institutions is as under :— Baldovan Larbert . Waverley Park St. Joseph’s R.C. Gogarburn Boys. 1 3 4 13 21 Girls 1 I 1 3 2 8 29