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The Enfield Children's Care Committee also assisted in the
following ways:—
Five children were sent to convalescent homes.
One child was given cod liver oil and malt.
Two hundred and fifteen children were supplied with boots.
There were 13 deaths among school children during the year.
The causes were as follows:—
1 Mitral Stenosis.
3 Tuberculous Meningitis.
1 Uraemia.
1 Acute Nephritis.
1 Cerebral Tumour.
1 Tumour of Spinal Cord.
2 Murdered (Coal Gas Poisoning).
1 Drowned.
1 Accident (Fractured Skull).
1 Accident (Multiple Injuries).
PROVISION OF MEALS.
Meals are provided for necessitous children at the following
centres:—
St. Luke's Institute, Enfield.
Feeding Centre, Alma Road, Ponders End.
Bellside Dining Rooms, Enfield Wash.
Dining Rooms, St. Mark's Road, Bush Hill Park.
During 1939 50,436 dinners were provided free.
906,477⅓-pint bottles of milk were provided and paid for, and
84,546 were provided free.
BLIND, DEAF, EPILEPTIC, AND MENTALLY
DEFECTIVE CHILDREN.
There is one blind child in Enfield and she is attending Swiss
Cottage School for the Blind.
Eleven children are in attendance at Philip Lane School for
the Deaf, Tottenham; these may be classified as follows:—
2 Deaf-mutes.
4 suffering from acquired deafness.
5 suffering from motor aphasia,