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Nine deaf mutes, four girls and five boys were at the end of
the year being maintained at Special Residential Schools.
One girl suffering from severe epilepsy was maintained at a
Special Residential School and one boy was kept at home, where
he was undergoing treatment by his regular medical attendant.
Seven girls and seven boys who were suffering from mild
attacks of epilepsy, occurring at night and never in the day, were
attending public elementary schools.
One crippled boy, who was unable to attend the ordinary
school was maintained at a Special Residential School. All the
other children suffering from crippled conditions were able to
attend the public elementary schools like normal children—a
very satisfactory state of things which has been mainly due to the
marked improvement in their condition resulting from orthopaedic
treatment. Two boys suffering from heart disease were maintained
at a Special Hospital School.
Five feeble-minded children, three girls and two boys, were
maintained at Special Residential Schools. There were 50 feebleminded
children, 26 girls and 24 boys, in attendance at public
elementary schools.
Eight children were notified during the year to the Local
Mental Deficiency Authority : one idiot boy, two imbecile boys,
three imbecile girls, one moral defective boy and one feeble-minded
girl on leaving a special school after attaining the age of 16.
Steps were taken during the year to ascertain all the feebleminded
children in the public elementary schools and to estimate
the Intelligence Quotient of each. It was noted in last year's
Annual Report that a Conference representing the Local Education
Authorities of Middlesex, Brentford and Chiswick, Heston and
Isleworth, and Ealing, which had been called to consider a special
school for feeble-minded children, had adjourned in 1929 with a
view to allowing each authority time to ascertain the number of
feeble-minded children in the various groups that have to be dealt
with.