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Barking 1934

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barking]

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Table: The following table gives information in respect of medical inspection at the Faircross Special School during the year 1934 :—

The following table gives information in respect of medical inspection at the Faircross Special School during the year 1934 :—

Number of inspection sessions21
Number of children inspected :—
(a) Routines101
(b) Specials25
(c) Re-examinations269
395
Number of defects referred :—
(a) For treatment18
(b) For observation27
45
Number of defects found treated31
Number of parents present at inspections234

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(14) FULL-TIME COURSES OF HIGHER EDUCATION FOR BLIND,
DEAF, DEFECTIVE AND EPILEPTIC STUDENTS.
The Local Education Authority do not maintain any courses of training for
Blind, Deaf, Defective and Epileptic students.
(15) NURSERY SCHOOLS.
There are no Nursery Schools in Barking. These schools are found necessary
in many districts on account of unsatisfactory home conditions or where mothers
go out to work. They are also necessary in certain selected cases where, unless the
mother can place the child with safety at such a centre, she cannot possibly live any
individual life of her own and tend to her own needs which, of course, are equally
the needs of her child.
You have in Barking large new housing estates where the housing conditions
are satisfactory, but there will of course always remain the few selected cases of
which I have spoken which from time to time, although perhaps not all the
time, will require the provision of some sort of creche or class. The problem
is primarily one of the mother and indirectly one of the child.