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Deaf.
The deaf children are educated at the Tottenham Council School for
the deaf. They are conducted there in the morning, and brought back
after afternoon school. There were eleven of these children at the
beginning of the year. One child has been admitted, and one discharged
during: the year.
Blind.
The blind children are educated at the East London School for the
Blind, where they are boarded during the school term at the expense of
the Education Committee. Two children were attending this school at
the beginning of the year, and two children have been admitted during
the year.
Temperatures of School Children.
As far as time permitted, the temperatures of all children of ten
and thirteen years of age were taken during the medical inspection. The
temperature was taken with a Kew-tested half-minute thermometer in the
mouth, at the usual time of medical inspection, between 9 a.m. and 4.30
p.m. It was left in from three to five minutes. The temperature recorded
was the nearest mark on the clinical thermometer. Thus, a temperature
recorded of 98.4 might be anything between 98.3 and 98.5.
The following table gives the distributions of the temperatures for
the 1,862 children, on the Fahrenheit scale:—