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compiled from the list of exceptional children on the last day of
the year, and show that 25 children were being maintained at
Certified Schools by the Education Committee.
Nine children were notified during the year to the local mental
deficiency authority. These children comprised two imbecile
girls, five imbecile boys, one idiot (a boy), and one feeble minded
girl, the latter being notified on leaving a Special School when
she attained the age of sixteen.
NURSERY SCHOOLS.
There are no nursery schools in the Borough. Children under
five years of age are admitted to the Infants' Schools, provided the
School Attendance Committee are satisfied that there is a real
necessity for the child to attend school, such as the mother having
to go to work.
SECONDARY SCHOOLS.
Medical Inspection.—The school medical staff undertake,
on behalf of the Middlesex Education Committee, the medical
inspection of the pupils attending the three secondary schools in
the Borough. The schools are visited every year and all entrants
(pupils admitted since the previous inspection), and all pupils
who are fifteen years of age, undergo a complete medical examination.
Following-up and Treatment.—Subsequent to the medical
inspection notices are sent to the parents calling attention to defects
which have been found and which require treatment. At the
same time a list of these children, indicating the defects, is sent to
the head-teachers who subsequently institute enquiries regarding
the provision of treatment and by this means stimulate action
being taken.
Arrangements have now been made by which the Ealing
school medical staff will carry out the dental inspection and treatment
of all the pupils in the secondary schools and the examination
by refraction and the prescribing of glasses in all cases of visual
defect in such pupils not treated privately.