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The Education Committee approved of this report and submitted
the proposals to the Board of Education. The Board on
considering them stated that in order to secure proper grading
for the partially sighted children four special classes would be
needed, namely, two attached to a Junior Mixed School, one attached
to a Senior Boys' School and one attached to a Senior Girls' School
which would mean a total of about 80 children which Ealing clearly
could not itself provide, and suggested that the possibility of
co-operating with the authorities of adjoining areas should be
considered. Adjoining authorities have been approached and
it is hoped that when all the areas have been able to take the
appropriate steps, with the assistance of an ophthalmic surgeon,
to ascertain the partially sighted children that have to be dealt
with, a workable scheme will be submitted to the Board. It may
be asserted that the area in which the classes are established does
not matter so long as the provision is suitable for the children
concerned and so long as the situation of the school or schools is
as far as practicable convenient to all areas participating in the
scheme.
(c) Nose and Throat Defects.—The new arrangements for
the operative treatment for nose and throat defects at the King
Edward Memorial Hospital were described in the last report.
During the year under review 64 children were dealt with, 61
being operated on for enlarged tonsils, two for adenoids, and
one for enlarged tonsils and adenoids.
(d) Dental Defects.—The report of Mr. C. Colenso, the School
Dentist, gives a survey of the work of dental inspection and treatment
during the year. For convenience, the report is inserted in
three places in the annual report, the section relating to secondary
school children appearing on page 83, that dealing with mothers
and pre-school children on page 59, while the section embracing
a description of the work among elementary school children follows.
"During the year 13,910 children in the Elementary Schools
were inspected by the dentists. It was found that 8,939 required
treatment, a slight reduction when compared with the number in
the previous year. Those actually treated at the Centres totalled
5,528, an increase of 132 over those treated in 1934. At the end