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98
Medical. Treatment.
Ringworm 168
Scabies 129
Miscellaneous 683
The total number of children examined was 1,532,
and the total number of attendances 3,266.
Blind, Deaf, Mentally and Physically Defective and
Epileptic Children.
The Local Education Authority maintains one child
at the Fitzroy Square Institution for the Oral Instruction
of the Deaf, and three children at the Training School
for the Blind at Swiss Cottage. Three mentally defective
children were reported during the year to the County
Council as being non-educable and unsuitable for a
special school.
Special schools are urgently required for mentally and
physically defective children. For the former Village
Park, a house standing on the land which was purchased
for the erection of houses for the working-classes, was
decided upon but the Town Council considered the
housing difficulties more pressing and decided to convert
it into flats. Since that decision was come to efforts
have been made to secure a suitable house or site, but
so far without success.
The same want of success has attended our efforts to
obtain a convenient and suitable site on which to build
an open-air school for physically defective children.
The great scarcity of houses of all sizes and the consequent
great rise in the values of houses and land, render
the establishment of special schools extremely difficult.
The necessity of these schools, however, must not be
lost sight of and it is hoped that the provision of them
will not be long delayed.
THOMAS ORR, M.D., D.Sc.