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NURSERY SCHOOLS.
There are no Nursery Schools and there are no nursery classes
in the ordinary schools in the Borough. Children under five years
of age are admitted to some of the schools when in the opinion
of the School Attendance Sub-Committee the home circumstances
justify their being admitted. Altogether there were in the schools
at the end of the year about 160 children under five years of age,
chiefly in St. John's, Little Ealing, Betham's, Drayton and Grange
Schools. Where the numbers render it practicable classes are
conducted on kindergarten lines.
SECONDARY SCHOOLS.
Medical inspection of children in the three County Schools in
Ealing is carried out on behalf of the Middlesex County Council by
the Ealing School Medical Staff. Proposals were put forward by
the County Council by which dental inspection and treatment and
the treatment of defective vision would also be carried out by the
local staff but these proposals, which were agreed to by the Ealing
Education Committee, had to be postponed in consequence of the
national financial crisis.
Medical inspection of children and adults attending the Occupation
Centre for Mental Defectives is carried out on behalf of the
Mental Deficiency Authority. Medical treatment is given where
this is possible at the Health Centre.
BLIND, DEAF, DEFECTIVE AND EPILEPTIC CHILDREN.
All blind and deaf children of school age are sent to Special
Residential Schools. Five blind girls and five blind boys were
being maintained at Certified Schools for the Blind at the end
of the year.
Thirteen deaf mutes, seven girls and six boys, were at the
end of the year being maintained at Special Residential Schools
One boy suffering from severe epilepsy was maintained at a
Special Residential School.