[Report 1910] / Medical Officer of Health, Tynemouth County Borough.

  • Tynemouth (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1910
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Credit: [Report 1910] / Medical Officer of Health, Tynemouth County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (1) as to be unable to procure suitable employment, or contribute towards their upkeep in later years, and (2) as unfit to be allowed free to perpetuate their stock. Personally I believe that no Education Authority is efficiently equipped to undertake or grapple with the education of the various mental grades of children found in any given locality unless it has and maintains special facilities for the further education not only of those above the average or of average intelligence, but also of those dull and backward, or, lastly, mentally deficient. We must not delude ourselves by imagining that by not undertaking the care of the last class of children early, however unsatisfactory the results, we have heard the last of them, because, as is well known, many sub¬ sequently with their progeny are in and out of the workhouses or other institutions of this country. A possible local solution, considering the likely number of the mentally and physically defective to be about 40, and provided the sanction of the Board of Education could be obtained, might be the purchase or renting of a local private house in its own grounds, suitably altered and partitioned off for the two kinds of defect. This school would further conform to an open air school, a class of school which has been found to be especially advantageous for those child¬ ren requiring special care on account of some physical weakness. EXAMINATION OE PUPIL-TEACHERS OR TEACHERS. 12 Candidates as Teachers were examined, and certified as able to undertake their duties. One Candidate was referred for further examination at the end of three months, and was then certified as satisfactory. Two Pupil-Teachers were examined with a view to ascertaining their physical capability of entering the teaching profession. One was passed and the other rejected.