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Once again I would wish to put on record the expression of my personal
indebtedness to my medical colleagues in general practice who have, at no small
inconvenience to themselves, on numerous occasions helped in cases which have
shown some medical or social difficulty.
The ready co-operation which has been received on all hands has enhanced
the value of your serv ices, and has made the part your officers have to play in them
far easier than it could possibly be without this help.
The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children still continues
to carry out its valuable work. That there is not more work for them to do is a
tribute to the services you yourselves have set up. However efficient yours and
similar services may be, I think there is still room for this valuable National Society,
which stands in a peculiarly favoured position and is able to step in where officials
find themselves in some difficulty. On account of the Services you yourselves
have set up and the measure of success you have achieved, it must of necessity
obtain that cases not dealt with by you and referred to the National Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Children are of some considerable difficulty ; so that
although the cases dealt with by them are not large in number they are of some
considerable importance.

(13) BLIND, DEAF, DEFECTIVE AND EPILEPTIC CHILDREN.
The following table shows the number of children who have attended at the
Faircross Special School in the Open-Air, Physically Defective and Mentally
Defective Sections—and, in addition, in other parts of the report will be found
figures as to how many children have been admitted to the Brookfield Orthopaedic
Hospital and elsewhere for orthopaedic conditions:—-