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these children attend are Royal School for the Deaf, Margate, 4
boys and 9 girls ; this is residential. L.C.C. (Deaf) Schools, 1 boy
at the Hearnville School, Balham, and 2 girls, at Oak Lodge Clapham
and Old Kent Road Schools.
Epileptic Children.
3 boys and 3 girls are resident at special schools, namely
at Lingfield Epileptic Colony, 2 boys and 2 girls; Soss Moss Epileptic
School, Cheshire, 1 boy ; Chalfont Epileptic Colony, 1 girl.
Mentally Defective Children.
A full account of the activities at St. Christopher's School is
given in the section of my Annual Report dealing with Mental
Deficiency.
In addition to the day accommodation provided at Grange wood,
one girl is resident in the Monyhull M.D. School, Birmingham ;
2 girls are at Knotty Ash M.D. School, Liverpool, and 1 boy and
1 girl at Sandiebridge, Cheshire.
Physically Defective Children.
The Education Authority have crippled children in the undermentioned
special schools: St. Vincent's Cripple Home and School,
1 girl; Heritage Craft Cripple School, Chailey, 2 boys; Treloar
Cripple Hospital, Alton, Hants, 1 boy; St. Nicholas and St.
Martin, Pyrford, 1 girl, Oak Bank, Sevenoaks, 1 girl.
At special schools for Cardiac Cripples, the Committee maintained
4 girls at West Wickham Heart Home.
School Camps.
A school camp was again held during the summer months at
Pilgrim Fort, near Caterham. The camp, which is provided with
a piped water supply from the East Surrey Water Company,
is provided with permanent buildings. Blankets, tents, stretchers,
etc, for sleeping purposes, and a fully equipped cookhouse are
provided. The sanitary arrangements are satisfactory.
514 boys and girls from the elementary schools went to the
Camp during 1930 in parties of 20 or 40, each party going for
one wsek. The following are the departments which sent parties.
All the children are medically inspected before proceeding to camp,
Woodside, 20 boys; Davidson, 20 boys and 20 girls; Whitehorse