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and for after-care, but this is often difficult, especially with the
dull child from a poor home. The subsequent ophthalmic supervision
of the children is assisted by the circumstance that the
Ophthalmic Surgeon to the School is also the Ophthalmic Surgeon
attached to the Mayday and Croydon General Hospitals.
Deaf Children.
Six boys and 9 girls are resident at special schools for the
deaf; 1 boy attends a special day school. The institutions which
these children attend are: Royal School for the Deaf, Margate,
G boys and 9 girls (this is residential); L.C.C. Day (Deaf) School,
1 boy, at Hearnville Road, Balham.
Epileptic Children.
Two boys and 2 girls are resident at the Lingfield Epileptic
Colony.
Mentally Defective Children.
In addition to the day accommodation provided at St.
Christopher's School, 3 girls are resident in the Monyhull M.D.
School, Birmingham; 1 girl is at Knotty Ash M.D. School,
Liverpool; 2 boys at Sandlebridge, Cheshire; 1 boy at Besford
Court, Worcestershire; and 1 girl at Allerton Priory, Liverpool.
Physically Defective Children.
The Education Authority have, in addition to those accommodated
at St. Giles' School, crippled children in the undermentioned
special schools:—The Heritage Craft School, Chailey,
3 boys and 1 girl; at Treloar's Cripple Hospital, Alton, 1 girl.
The Committee maintained 1 girl at West Wickham Heart
Home, a special school for cardiac cripples; 1 boy at Edgar Lee
Heart Home, Willesden; 1 girl at Cheyne Hospital, Chelsea;
and 1 boy and 2 girls at Lancing Convalescent Home for Cardiac
cases.
SPEECH DEFECTS CLASS.
The special bi-weekly class, conducted by two trained speech
teachers, has continued through the year and has been fully
attended throughout. Each teacher can only treat adequately a