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HANDICAPPED PUPILS.
The physically-handicapped, delicate, and
educationally sub-normal children attending
Faircross Day Special School continued to
receive constant medical supervision, twentythree
sessions of medical inspection being
carried out at the school during the year.
The number of physically-handicapped and
delicate children on the roll at the end of the
year was sixty-three, which included nine from
Dagenham and East Ham.
There were ninety-five educationally subnormal
children in attendance at the school,
although of this number sixty-one came from
Ilford, Dagenham and East Ham,
Six children from this area attended
Tunmarsh Lane (Day) Deaf Centre, West Ham.
Other handicapped children were treated in
residential special schools as under:-
Educationally sub-normal: 1
Epileptic: 1
Physically-handicapped: 1
Blind: 1
Partially blind: 1
Partially deaf: 1
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