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Handicapped Pupils.
There are no special schools for the education of handicapped
pupils in the area, but a total of 238 children requiring special
educational treatment attend appropriate schools in other boroughs,
and 86 are placed in boarding schools. Included in these numbers are
30 (27) physically handicapped children in attendance at day schools
and 10 (9) in boarding schools.
Attending ordinary schools are 55 (37) epileptic children,
69 (45) with orthopaedic and postural defects, 23 (21) suffering from
diabetes, 20 (17) from rheumatism, 99 (19) from asthma, 8 (6) cerebral
and spastic cases, and 9 (7) with eye diseases other than refractions
and squints.
The number of maladjusted children referred to the Problem Case
Conference was 128 (165). Of this number, 65 (81) were referred to
Child Guidance Clinics.
Two tutorial classes for maladjusted children are in being, and
the number recommended for them from Case Conference was sixteen.
Clinics.
(i) Vision.
173 (199) sessions were held during the year. Total
attendances numbered 2,636 (2,673). New cases attending
during the year numbered 1,372 (1,538).
1 (2) totally blind child is being educated in a
boarding establishment and 3 (1) children with partial
sight in a special school.
(ii) Hearing.
Audiometry - during the year 4,975 (3,759) children
in ordinary schools were given the "Sweep" test by the
nursing sisters, and for the first time children in
secondary schools were included.