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complaints and hydrotherapy is found to be beneficial in such cases. Since we have
been unable to recruit a physiotherapist, remedial exercises and visits to the swimming
bath have been supervised by the school nurse. The children are provided
with three meals a day and have a rest period. They are medically examined once
a term.
Durants and Oaktree Schools
Accommodation for 160 educationally subnormal pupils is provided in each
of these schools, which are maintained by the Education Committee. In view of the
special needs of these children not only do they receive an annual medical inspection,
but also the schools are visited fortnightly by a medical officer. The educational
psychologist paid 19 visits to the schools for the purpose of educational
assessment.
Wavenden House Residential School for Educationally Subnormal Girls
This school, which is maintained by the Education Committee, is situated in
the country, near Woburn Sands, Buckinghamshire, with provision for 90 girls from
11 to 16 years of age. Children referred by other education authorities are also
accommodated at the school. The school is visited once a week by a general medical
practitioner who looks after the general health of the children. Full medical examinations
of Enfield children are carried out annually by assistant medical officers
during the school holidays.
During the Christmas holidays, 1966 - 67, East Quinton School for maladjusted
junior boys was badly damaged by fire and arrangements were made for the boys
and staff from this school to be temporarily accommodated at Wavendon House.
They returned to East Quinton in September 1967.
(See Statistical Table 60)
HOME AND HOSPITAL TUITION
Under Section 56 of the Education Act, 1944, a local education authority has
power to provide primary and secondary education otherwise than at school. Home
and hospital tuition was provided for 17 children because of special circumstances.
CHILDREN UNSUITABLE FOR EDUCATION AT SCHOOL
Under Section 57 (amended) of the Education Act, 1944, it is the duty of the
local education authority to ascertain which children in their area are suffering
from a disability of mind of such a nature or to such an extent as to make them
unsuitable for education at school and cause the decision to be recorded and to
furnish to the local health authority a report of the decision. Nineteen such cases
were dealt with under this section.
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