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Deaf Children.
4 boys and 7 girls are resident at special schools for the deaf;
1 boy and 1 girl attend special day schools. The institutions which
these children attend are Royal School for the Deaf, Margate, 4
boys and 7 girls; this is residential. L.C.C. (Deaf) Schools, 1 boy
at the Hearnville School, Balham, and 1 girl at Oak Lodge Clapham.
Epileptic Children.
3 boys and 4 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, 2 girls.
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 St. Christopher's
School, one girl is resident in the Monyhull M.D. School,
Birmingham ; 2 girls are at Knotty Ash M.D. School, Liverpool,
and 2 boys and 1 girl at Sandlebridge, Cheshire ; 1 boy at Besford
Court, Worcestershire.
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.
The Committee maintained 2 girls at West Wickham Heart
Home, a special school for Cardiac Cripples.
School Camps.
A school camp was again held during the summer months at
Pilgrim Eort, 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.
495 boys and girls from the elementary schools went to the
Camp during 1931 in parties of 20 or 40, each party going for
one week. The following are the departments which sent parties.