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There are 7 residential (industrial) schools, 6 residential schools (2 for blind, 2 for deaf, 1 for
defective deaf and 1 for mentally defective children), with a total accommodation for 1,100 residential
and 115 day scholars. To each institution is allocated a medical officer and provision has been made
for dental inspection and treatment. During the year 900 boys were admitted to Pentonville-road
Place of Detention and 306 girls and infants to Ponton-road.
Residential
schools.
Classes in health subjects.
In the first aid section of the handbook for classes in health subjects, concerning transport of the
injured, instruction in the use of "Thomas' Splints" has been introduced with special reference to
fractures of the thigh. The use of these splints makes safer transport possible, and allows of ready
examination of the injured limb, and even, when necessary, of continued treatment without disturbance.
The thigh or hip splint consists of a padded ring, through which the injured limb is passed until the
pad rests on the seat. From this ring a wire frame several inches longer than the limb passes down,
turns in a loop, and returns on the other side again to join the limb.

*Only 102 children were noted as having been seen previously the same year; the "general" cases relate to examinations en masse
and individual records are not kept.
The number of children re-inspected was 180,699 (of these, 24,450 were inspected in the same year, and 16.391 were previously re
inspected in the year).