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children who cannot read ordinary school books or cannot read them without
injury to their eyesight, are admitted to the Special School for Partially
Sighted Children, Lordship Lane, Wood Green, N.22, and five children were
on the roll at the end of the year.
There are in Edmonton four totally and three partially deaf children, and
these attend the Special School for the Deaf, Philip Lane, Tottenham, N.15.
At the end of the year there were 47 mentally defective (feeble-minded)
children attending the Nassau House Special School, Enfield Highway,
Middlesex.
Head Teachers are regularly circularised and requested to submit Form
41 D. in respect of any mentally retarded child attending their Department.
If, after examination, I consider them suitable for admission to Nassau
House Special School, immediate arrangements are made for their transfer.
Ineducables are referred to the County Medical Officer (under the Mental
Deficiency Act, 1913) who makes arrangements, subject to the parent's consent,
for their admission to the Occupation Centre, which is held daily at
Bassishaw Hall, Bury Street, Edmonton, N.9.
Special cases requiring in-patient treatment are dealt with accordingly.
In this way there are no mentally defective children, to my knowledge,
attending ordinary elementary schools.
At the end of the year there were two epileptic children both in the
Lingfield Epileptic Colony.
MINOR AILMENTS CLINICS—ATTENDANCES.
Total attendances for 1938 were
Pymines Park Clinic 25,597
Croyland Road Clinic 21,463
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