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BLIND, DEAF, DEFECTIVE AND EPILEPTIC CHILDREN.
All blind and all deaf children of school age are sent to Special
Residential Schools. Two blind girls and one blind boy were
maintained at Certified Schools for the Blind at the end of the year,
and two boys and one girl were maintained at Certified Schools for
the Partially Blind.
Fourteen deaf mutes, eight boys and six girls, were at the end
of the year maintained at Certified Schools for the Deaf.
One girl suffering from severe epilepsy was maintained at a
Certified Special School and one girl was kept at home where she
was undergoing treatment by her regular medical attendant.
One crippled boy was unable to attend the ordinary public
elementary school and was maintained at a Certified Special School.
All the other children, 27 in number, undergoing orthopaedic
supervision or treatment were able to attend the public elementary
schools like normal children. The fact that only one child has to
be sent to a Special School is a striking result of the early and
effective orthopaedic treatment provided under the Education
Committee's Scheme.
Two girls suffering from heart disease were maintained at
Certified Special Schools and one girl was treated in Hospital.
Three feeble-minded girls were maintained at Certified Schools
for Mental Defectives. There were 59 feeble-minded children in
attendance at public elementary schools.
Eleven children were notified during the year to the Local
Mental Deficiency Authority; six imbecile girls and four imbecile
boys and one boy idiot.
In the course of the year six boys and six girls requiring
convalescent treatment were maintained for a period of six weeks
at the King Edward Memorial Convalescent Home at Bexhill
at the cost of the Education Committee. Two boys and two
girls were given a summer holiday of two weeks at Bexhill under
the King Edward VII Memorial Fund. It was pointed out in
the Annual Report for 1932 that the former was only available
during the winter months for six boys and six girls, that, even so,
markedly beneficial results accrued to the children specially favoured
and that there were many other children in the schools in such a
condition as to require convalescent treatment for a period of six
weeks which ought to be made available throughout the year.