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In addition, there were eleven children having more than one defect who were
placed in schools primarily suitable for their greater disability.
Hazelbury Open Air School
This school, maintained by the Education Committee, accommodates 140
children who are considered unable to manage the regime of an ordinary school
because of their medical condition or because of a minor physical handicap which
does not warrant placement in a school for physically handicapped children. The
school provides fresh air, rest, diet, a hygienic way of life and medical care and
treatment. A large proportion of the children suffer from chest complaints, and
hydrotherapy is found to be beneficial in such cases. Remedial exercises and visits
to the swimming bath are 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 sub-normal pupils is provided in each
of these day special schools, which are maintained by the Education Committee.
In view of the special needs of these children they are medically examined annually
and, where thought necessary, more frequently by an assistant medical officer, who
regularly visits the schools.
The educational psychologist paid 22 visits to the schools for the purpose of
educational assessment.
Wavendon House Residential School for Educationally Sub-normal Children
This school, which is maintained by the Education Committee, is situated in
the country, near Woburn Sands, Buckinghamshire, with provision for ninety girls
from eleven to sixteen years of age. Children from various parts of the country
are accommodated at the school. A general medical practitioner, who visits the
school once a week, looks after the general health of the children. Full medical
examinations of Enfield children are carried out annually during the school holidays
by the assistant medical officers.
The children from this school will be transferred during 1969 to Clay Hill
House, Enfield, and will attend the local schools for educationally sub-normal
children.
Wavendon House School will then become a residential school for maladjusted
boys, and it is hoped this will ease the long waiting period for admission to this
type of school.
(See Statistical Table 58)
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