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of necessitous parents and the Middlesex King Edward Memorial
Committee in giving holidays, at their Holiday Home at Heme
Bay, for anaemic or badly nourished children.
NURSERY SCHOOLS.
There are no Nursery Schools in the district, but children
between 4 and 5 years of age are admitted to the Infants' Departments
whenever, in the opinion of the School Attendance Committee,
it is considered advisable that the children should be cared for in
school when they cannot be properly cared for at home on account
of the mother having to go out to work or on account of some other
circumstance preventing proper care at home during ordinary
school hours. Comparatively few married women are engaged in
regular employment in the Borough and consequently there has
not been much demand for Nursery Schools.
SECONDARY SCHOOLS.
There are two Secondary Schools in Ealing provided by the
Middlesex Education Committee, one for boys and one for girls
the latter having been opened in February, 1926. Medical Inspection
is carried out for this Committee by the Ealing school medical
staff.
BLIND, DEAF, DEFECTIVE AND EPILEPTIC CHILDREN.
The School Enquiry Officers report to the School Medical
department all children of school age who are blind, deaf, defective
or epileptic and not in attendance at any school; the head-teachers
similarly report at once defective children admitted to school
and the staff of the Maternity and Child Welfare Centre pass on
the records of all defective children on reaching the age of five years,
In these ways a fairly complete list of specially defective children
is kept.
Blind and deaf children, when discovered, are immediately
sent to Special Residential Schools. Two blind girls and five blind
boys are being maintained by the Local Education Authority at
Certified Schools for the Blind. Six boys and four girls, who are
considered partially blind from high myopia, attend public elementary
schools under special supervision, special instructions being
given to the teachers regarding the restricted use of their eyes. They
are examined by the Oculist at regular intervals.