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Deaf Children.
Two boys and two girls attend the Ackmar Road Special
School.
Epileptic Children.
A boy and a girl who have both been withdrawn by their
parents from institutions are being taught at home, and a third young
child is at present excluded from school.
Pulmonary Tuberculosis.
Two girls and a boy are at Harefield Sanatorium.
Non Pulmonary Tuberculosis.
Three boys and a girl are at the Royal Sea Bathing Home,
Margate. Two boys and a girl are at the Treloar Home, Alton,
and another girl is at Chase Farm Hospital.
Crippled Children.
One girl is at St. Mary's Home, Dover. A boy and a girl
are at Faroe Road Special School. A boy and a girl who attend
hospitals for a severe degree of crippling are at home. Two boys and
three girls attend public elementary schools.
Heart Disease.
A boy and girl are at Heart Homes, and one boy attends the
Brook Green School for Physically Defective Children. One boy
is in the West Middlesex Hospital, another boy who was withdrawn
by his mother from a special institution is now attending an elementary
school, and three girls who have suffered from Chorea
are at home and attend the outpatient departments of certain
hospitals.
REPORT OF SCHOOL OCULIST.
The work of the School Ophthalmic Clinic was carried on
regularly throughout the year 1933.
At the school medical examinations and at the daily Minor
Ailment Clinic 438 children were found to be suffering from defects
of vision or other troubles connected with the eyes, and these were
referred to the Ophthalmic Clinic.
Of this number 29 were found to require no special attention,
and 02 refused treatment or left the district.