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There are 8 residential and industrial schools, 2 reformatories, 0 residential schools (2 for blind,
3 for deaf, and 1 for mentally defective children), with a total accommodation for 2,097 residential and
252 day scholars. To each institution is allocated a medical olliccr and a dentist, whose duties have
been set out in previous reports. The dentists made 132 visits to the schools, conducted 2,576
examinations, and treated 1,176 cases. During the year 893 boys were admitted to Harrow.road place
of detention, 1,662 boys to Pentonville.road place of detention, and 809 girls and infants to Ponton.road.
The teeth of children attending the Council's blind, myope, deaf, and hard of hearing schools
are examined and attended to by a dentist specially engaged for the purpose by the Council. The
dentist visits each day school twice a year, and the consent of the parents is obtained in all cases before
children receive treatment. Where accommodation permits, facilities for tooth.brush drill are also
provided. During the year the dentist made 1,611 examinations, and treated 684 cases, but some of
the children were treated more than once. Objections to inspection or treatment or both were received
in 181 cases. In addition to this work, the dentist also made 76 examinations in connection with
children boarded out from industrial schools, and treated 39 cases.
During the year 27 children were scheduled as suitable for admission to epileptic colonies. On
the 31st December, 1917, 77 children were attending certified schools for epileptics and 17 were on the
waiting list for admission to special schools or colonies. A register is now being kept of all children
found in the course of the examinations to be epileptic, and, on the 31st December, 1917, contained
711'names (340 boys and 371 girls). At, the time of the examination 368 (175 boys and 193 girls) were
out of school.

Residential
institutions.
Dental
inspection
and treatment
of
children in
blind,
myope, deaf
and hard of
hearing
classes.
Epileptics.