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HEALTH EDUCATION.
In the Annual Report for 1929 a description was given of all
the activities concerned with health education, especially in regard
to school children who are being taught by the teachers healthhabits
in their early years of school life and later are provided
with appropriate lessons in various ways on the physiology of
healthy living. There is no doubt that this instruction is having
its effect not only on the children but on the parents who are being
influenced by them.
At the Health Centres the education of the parents attending
with their children is being tackled as much by the medical and
nursing staff, who take every opportunity of giving them a practical
lesson on health and healthy living, as by the exhibition of suitable
posters and by the free distribution of various publications such
as " Better Health," and leaflets on the care of the teeth and on
different questions in relation to the health of children.
BLIND, DEAF, DEFECTIVE AND EPILEPTIC CHILDREN.
All blind and deaf children of school age have been as a routine
practice sent to Special Residential Schools. Four blind girls
and three 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.
Two boys suffering from severe epilepsy were maintained at
Special Residential Schools.
Ten girls and four boys who were suffering from mild attacks
of epilepsy, occurring at night and never in the day, were attending
public elementary schools and one boy and two girls were kept
at home where they were undergoing treatment by their regular
medical attendants.
One crippled boy and two crippled girls, who were unable
to attend the ordinary school, were maintained at Special Residential
Schools. All the other children undergoing orthopaedic supervision
or treatment were able to attend the public elementary schools