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The Ealing Education Committee in 1929 passed the following
resolutions :—
" (i) That the necessary steps be taken as soon as possible to
accommodate low-grade mentally defective children in
Occupation Centres or Residential Special Schools
according to the nature of the defect.
" (ii) That retarded children be dealt with in each school as a
part of the Hadow Re-organisation Scheme, on the
understanding that it may be necessary to transfer such
children from small and badly graded schools.
" (iii) That the School Medical Officer proceed as quickly as
possible with the ascertainment of children with a view
to further steps being taken towards the establishment
of a Joint Day School for high-grade mentally defective
children."
When each Education Authority has the completed information
regarding the feeble-minded children in its area a further meeting
of the Conference will in all probability be called with a view to
considering future action.
For delicate children requiring convalescent treatment the
Education Committee have made arrangements with the Committee
of the Middlesex King Edward Memorial Fund by which
four boys and six girls will be received into their convalescent
home at Bexhill. This home normally is for giving a number of
delicate school children in Middlesex a holiday during the summer
months, but in the winter months the accommodation has been
placed at the disposal, at a reasonable cost per week, of Education
Authorities in Middlesex for delicate children who will stay there
for periods of six weeks. Children who have been sent to the
Bexhill Home have shown remarkable benefit from residence
there. This convalescent treatment could be extended with great
advantage to many children.