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Deaf Children are sent to the Ackmar Road School under the
L.C.C. Six children are at present attending this school and
are conducted under care of a guide, We have recently recommended
the admission of three other children to this centre. One
child has been in attendance at the Victoria Hospital for Sick
Children, and was considered by the doctor there to be a case of
word-deafness; the two other cases have been under observation
of the S.M.O. for some time, and their condition does not improve,
in spite of hospital treatment.
Dumb Children.
Arrangements are being made to transfer one child, who
formerly attended the Ackmar Road Centre, to a residential school
for the deaf and dumb at Margate.
Physically-Defectve Children.
The arrangements made in previous years continue in force,
and physically-defective children are specially examined by the
S.M.O., and it is now possible to suggest that children with slight
curvature of the spine shall be treated with special exercises, under
the care of a certificated instructor who lives in the district. This
is a private arrangement made by the parents, and in all cases
the instructor only works under the direction of a doctor, but it
should prove of some value in the district.
The following cases needed the special consideration of the
Committee during the past year:—
E. B., aged 10, suffers from tuberculous disease of the kneejoint,
and his leg is in a plaster support. He has resided at Putney,
and attended a special school under the L.C.C. Since July, 1911,
he was in a convalescent home at Walberswick, and was discharged
in September. The child gets about well on crutches and lives
near Southfield Road Schools. He is a bright, intelligent child,
and is anxious to attend school, so the plan is being tried of
allowing him to go to the Junior Department, where he is provided
with a special Ilkley chair and table on the L.C.C. pattern, as in
this way the injured leg is kept straight.