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The five cases which were added to the After-Care list, include
2 who left the Special School on attaining the age limit; both need
Institutional care and have been reported to the Kent County
Council. One boy left the District for Horsham, and has been reported
to the School Medical Officer of the West Sussex Education
Committee. Another was allowed to leave before reaching the age
limit, for the purpose of learning a trade; he has, unfortunately,
not been found intelligent enough to do so. A child of seven was
reported as being unfit for instruction in the Special School and
visited by a member of the Committee until he was placed in an
Institution. Two other cases entered Institutions during the year,
a young man of 23, who had got beyond his mother's control, and a
girl excluded as ineducable from the Special School. In each case
transfer from the training Institution in which they were placed at
first to a Mental Hospital became necessary, and the parents of the
girl withdrew her, refusing to consent to the transfer. Ten cases
removed to Institutions.
Of the eight discharged soldiers on the list, four have good
employment, one is in a Lord Roberts' Workshop, and three in the
neighbourhood need work.
The eight local cases previously employed have kept their places,
or found others.
The wages list varies from £4 to 9/- per week. Only two girls
of the nineteen on the list are in employment; one earning 17/- per
week in a factory, and the other working as a daily domestic.
Two low-grade cases, both females, are supervised by us for
the Kent County Council.
Members of the Committee are in touch with all the cases in the
neighbourhood who have left the Special School, or who have been
reported to them. The Committee have shown their interest in the
present pupils by arranging for them a summer outing to Hayes,
by contributing to the expenses of their Christmas party, and by
supplying clothing for certain necessitous cases.