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As last year, we were fortunate in enjoying good relationships with the specialised
psychiatric and psychotherapy clinics in London, such as the Child Guidance
Training Centre, the Tavistock Clinic, Paddington Day Hospital, and Great Ormond
Street Hospital who accepted most of the children, referred to this Clinic, whom we
could not see because of our limited facilities
Speech Therapy
The Authority has an establishment of five whole-time speech therapists, but
during the latter part of the year only four speech therepists were in employment and
undertaking sessions within the School Health Service in clinics and Special Schools
During the year a total of 572 children handicapped by speech or language
disorders received treatment and supervision.
Handicapped Pupils
Section 34 of the Education Act, 1944, makes it a duty of the Local Education
Authority to ascertain what children in the area require special educational treatment
and to provide education appropriate to their handicaps.
The various categories of handicapped pupils are defined by the School Health
Service and Handicapped Pupils Regulations, 1959, as follows:-
Blind Epileptic
Partially Sighted Maladjusted
Deaf Physically Handicapped
Partially Hearing Delicate
Educationally Subnormal Children suffering from Speech Defects
The Authority maintains three special schools for handicapped children:-
Oak Lodge Day School for
Educationally Subnormal Pupils
Northway Day Special School for
Educationally Subnormal Pupils
Swaylands Residential Special School for
Educationally Subnormal Boys
The School Medical Officer who had been responsible for the care of the boys at
Swaylands Residential School for many years, retired in October and Dr. D.D. Law was
appointed to the post of part-time School Medical Officer to the school. Although the
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