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Bromley 1952
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bromley]
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EXCEPTIONAL AND HANDICAPPED CHILDREN.
Twenty-eight attendances were made at the special clinic
held at the Municipal Officers for Exceptional and Handicapped
Children.
There are, at the present time, fifty-three known educationally sub-normal and physically handicapped children in the area. Details of these children are:—
| Not in School. | ||
|---|---|---|
| In residential schools for E.S.N. children | 4 | 6 |
| Attending day schools for E.S.N. children | 15 | |
| In residential schools for Blind and Partially Sighted children | 3 | |
| In residential schools for Deaf and Partially Deaf children | 3 | 1 |
| Attending day schools for Deaf and Partially Deaf children | 2 | |
| In residential premises for Physically Handicapped children | 3 | 3 |
| In residential premises for Delicate children | 6 | |
| Attending day schools for Delicate children | 1 | |
| In residential premises for Mal-adjusted children | 5 | 1 |
| There are twenty-six known ineducable children in the area, eleven of this number being in Institutions and fifteen at home. | ||
CHILD GUIDANCE.
All cases requiring treatment at the Child Guidance Clinics
are referred to the local hospital Psychiatric Department.
Fifteen cases were referred for treatment during 1952.
There has now been established, on a professional basis, a
much more closely knit procedure of reporting of cases.
MILK IN SCHOOLS.
There is no change to report in the arrangements for the
provision of milk in schools during the year 1952.
The latest return to the Ministry of Education showed that
86.67% of the pupils in attendance at Primary and Secondary
Schools received milk on a single day in October.
SCHOOL MEALS SERVICE.
Despite the continued restrictions on building projects, it is
satisfactory to report that the approval of the Ministry of Education
was given during the year to the erection of a new Kitchen
and Dining Room for 375 meals a day at the Valley County
Primary School. Work on the building is in hand and the
Canteen should be ready for use at Easter, 1953. The Kitchen
and Dining Rooms serving 750 meals a day at Southiborough
County Primary School, built in conjunction with the new Junior
Department, were completed and taken into use in October.