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Perhaps it would not be amiss to mention here the very excellent
mid-day meals provided by the Education Committee. Much
of the success of the School is due to these meals—the effect on
the children's physique is in all cases immediate and most marked.
On July 4th, 1931, 40 of the poorest children were taken by
charabanc by the Statf to Littlehampton where they spent a glorious
day. Many had never seen the sea before, and it is hoped to repeat
the excursion in 1932."
The Headmaster, Mr. H. J. Edmonds, would be pleased at
any time to show visitors over the School, and to explain what is
being done in Croydon for the educable mentally deficient child.
The number on the School Register on December 31st, 1931,
was 101.
Town Hall Clinic for Mentally Defective and Backward Children.
103 children were examined during 1931. The classifications
arrived at, together with the recommendations made, are sum-
asised as under.—
I. (a) Certified as Mentally Defective 44
(b) Confirmed as Mentally Defective 8
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Recommendations—
(a) Recommended for Special Day School 40
(b) Recommended for Residential Schools 2
(c) Referred to Occupation Centre 3
(d) Supervision at home pro tem. 2
(e) Examinations re Residential Schools or Pensions Certificates
5
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II. Found to be dull and backward 27
(а) Referred to a Special Class 20
(б) To have treatment at Clinics and re-examination ... 3
(c) Further trial in ordinary class 4
III. Found to be Physically Defective 3
(a) Recommended for Residential School for the Deaf 1
(b) Referred to Hospital 1
(c) Recommended for Day School for Partially Blind
Children 1
_ 3
IV. Considered to be of normal intelligence and referred to
ordinary school 12
V. Referred for re-examination 9
VI. Mental and physical examinations at St. Christopher's
School 128