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RETURN OF EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN.
On Table 3 will be found a return of all the exceptional
children in the district.
Multiple Defects.
One mentally deficient boy suffering from multiple tuberculosis
of bones is at the Stanmore Branch of the Royal National
Orthopaedic Hospital.
A second boy who is a cripple and an imbecile was sent away
from Stoke Park Colony to a Sanatorium, and is now at home.
A girl who is blind and mentally defective and who also
suffers from fits, is at home.
The fourth case is a girl who suffers from birth palsy and
slight epilepsy. She attends an elementary school.
Partially Sighted Children.
Two boys attend the Kingwood Road School for the Partially
Blind, one girl is at elementary school, but attends the Central
Ophthalmic Hospital regularly, and one boy suffering from very
high myopia is at a private school.
Deal Children.
Two boys and two girls attend the Ackmar Road Special
School, and a young boy aged 5 is at an elementary school.
Mentally Defective Children.
Twenty-three boys and nineteen girls are on the roll of the
Acton Special School for Mental Defectives.
Epileptic Children.
One girl suffering from severe epilepsy has returned to the
Lingfield Colony, and a boy who was withdrawn from there is being
taught at home. A girl aged 6 has been in Maida Vale Hospital
but is now at home and excluded from school attendance.
Tuberculous Children.
Three girls suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis are at
Harefield Sanatorium.