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inspector on an average every six months in order to ascertain
their suitability for transference to the Special School.
The head teachers are also requested twice a year to forward
lists of all retarded children in attendance at their schools.
Children who leave the Special School on attaining
the age of sixteen and who are in need of supervision and
care are notified to the Local Authority under the Act of
1913, as amended. In certain cases, where the school report is
satisfactory, the home influence good, and the prospect of employment
favourable, the names are passed on instead to the
Committee of the Guild of Social Welfare which acts in Wimbledon
as the Local Committee of the Surrey Voluntary
Association for Mental and Physical Welfare.
One girl who left on attaining the age of sixteen years
was notified as in need of supervision. A second girl, who
was not suitable for admission to the school was notified to
the Local Authority under Article 2 of the Mental Deficiency
(Notification of Children) Regulations, 1928.
Children leaving the Special School after attaining the
age of sixteen years in nearly all cases succeed in obtaining
employment. The boys take up work in the local factories,
or on milk and paper rounds, or acting as carriers for local
business houses. The girls are generally employed in factories,
laundries, in indoor service or doing daily work.
14. FULLTIME COURSES OF HIGHER EDUCATION
FOR BLIND, DEAF, DEFECTIVE AND EPILEPTIC
STUDENTS.
The Surrey County Council is the Authority responsible
for Higher Education for blind, deaf, defective, and epileptic
children. Recommendations are sent to the Surrey County
Council by the Wimbledon Education Authority, in suitable
cases, where Higher Education for such defective children
is considered desirable.
15. NURSERY SCHOOLS.
No Nursery Schools have been established in Wimbledon.
The question of providing Nursery Classes was considered by
the Education Committee in 1937. The Committee decided to
establish a Nursery Class in the Dundonald Road Junior Girls'
and Infants' School and this was opened on 21st June, 1938.
This class has accommodation for forty children between three
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