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" A further point of importance is that whenever a child is set down
for observation in respect of enlarged tonsils, any dental defect should be
immediately and completely treated."
(/) Defective Speech.—According to the plan mentioned
in the last Annual Report, the class for children with defective
speech was transferred in January, 1933, to the Ravenor Park
Health Centre, Greenford.
The accommodation provided in the class is for 12 children
only, and at first the places were filled entirely with children
suffering from speech defects other than stammering, of whom
there were 17 in the district. As children were discharged, their
places were filled by others and, when these had all been drafted
into the class, further vacancies were filled by stammering children.
By the close of 1933 all the children with defects other than
stammering had completed their course of treatment and 9 stammerers
had begun to attend, the residual vacancies being left for
filling in January, 1934.

Of the four improved, one had made only about one-quarter
of the possible number of attendances and it was therefore felt
that he was unlikely to benefit by further attendance.
The child marked as " unimproved " left the district after
only three attendances at the class.
Of the nine stammering children remaining in the class at the
close of the year, all had begun to show some improvement.
The 12 stammering children who ceased to attend the class
when it left the Mattock Lane Centre were all advised to continue
practice in relaxation and their head-teachers undertook to provide