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St. Luke's Institute, Enfield.
Feeding Centre, Alma Road, Ponders End.
Bellside Dining Rooms, Enfield Wash.
Dining Rooms, St. Mark's Road, Bush Hill Park.
During 1940, 25,089 dinners were provided.
1,134,850 ⅓-pint bottles of milk were provided and paid for,
and 53,507 were provided free.
BLIND, DEAF, EPILEPTIC AND MENTALLY
DEFECTIVE CHILDREN.
There is one blind child in Enfield and she is attending Swiss
Cottage School for the Blind.
Eight children are in attendance at Philip Lane School for the
Deaf, Tottenham; these may be classified as follows:—
5 suffering from acquired deafness.
3 suffering from motor aphasia.
Fifteen children were examined under the Mental Deficiency
Act (1913) during 1940. These were scheduled as follows:—
Dull and backward but capable of instruction in
an elementary school 2
Mentally defective but capable of instruction in a
special school 9
Imbecile 4
EXAMINATION AND TREATMENT OF
SECONDARY SCHOOL CHILDREN.
The number of children examined in the course of Routine
Medical Inspection at the secondary schools was as follows:—
Junior Technical School 54
Grammar School 212
County School 148