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Crippled Children.
One girl is at St. Mary's Home, Dover. The crippling resulted
from an attack of Infantile Paralysis. One girl attends the
Physically Defective School in New Kings Road, Fulham, and a boy
attends Faroe Road, Physically Defective School.
There are 42 crippled children attending the public elementary7
schools. Most of these have attended or are attending special
Hospitals. It will be noticed that 9 should be receiving special
school education, but the kind of school has not yet been determined.
The boy who was not in any school is suffering from OsteoMyelitis
and attends the out-patient department of a London Hospital.
Heart Disease.
At the end of the year, one girl was resident in the West
Wickham Heart Home. During the year, 2 other children were
sent by the Committee to certified Hospital schools, one to tVest
Wickham, and the other to the Cheyne Convalescent Home.
One boy was admitted to the West Middlesex Hospital,
suffering from Chorea, and was there at the end of the year. Of
the 7 cases who attend a Public? Elementary School, 2 are suffering
from congenital Heart Disease, and are excused physical exercise.
One boy has been in different convalescent homes, and should really
be in some institution, the others are attending various Hospitals *
and Clinics, and are attending school under conditions and restrictions.
Epilepsy.
A girl suffering from severe epilepsy attends a private school,
she was excluded from one of our schools on account of severe
epilepsy, and the parents made arrangements for her attendance
at a private school. Another, a boy, was temporarily excluded.
The boy was attending a hospital and the physician recommended
that he should attend an elementary school and he was readmitted.
The attacks have recently increased in frequency and severity,
and this year he has had to be excluded again.
DEFECTS TREATED.
On Table IV at the end of the Report will be found a list ot
the defects treated under the Authority's schemes. Group 1 are