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if their deficiency is more marked are sent to the Special School for Mentally
Defective Children at Finchley. At that school the children are seen periodically
by one of your assistant medical officers of health and an annual report
is submitted to your School Medical Officer.
When a mentally defective child reaches the age of 16, the Director of
Education consults the School Medical Officer as to the advisability of him
being notified to the County Council for after-care.
In the event of blind children leaving special schools, these are
notified to the Blind Persons' Act Authority.
An endeavour is made by your School Medical Officer, to see personally,
all children whose defect is sufficiently severe to preclude their being
educated in a public elementary school before recommendations for their
specialised education are made to the Education Committee and in Table III.
at the end of this report will be found a list of all exceptional children and
the arrangements made for the provision of their education.
RUSSELL COTES SCHOOL OF RECOVERY.
The Education Committee maintain ten beds at the Russell Cotes School
of Recovery for any children found to be debilitated and to require fresh air
and an altered regime of life. In all cases the children benefited by their
stay.
The children are examined before admission and after their return, and
in all cases it is found that they come back definitely improved in health.
The Council also send children away from time to time to other convalescent
schools.
MENTALLY DEFECTIVE CHILDREN.
As regards mentally defective children who are not sufficiently defective
as to be completely uneducable, the same arrangements exist with Oak
Lodge School at Finchley and there are at present attending there, 27 children
from this area. 5 children were notified to the County Council as bi ing
uneducable.
There are in addition in the ordinary elementary schools, certain classes
where slightly retarded children are given special educational facilities.
NURSERY SCHOOLS.
There are no nursery schools in the area but 166 children under the
age of 5 years were in attendance at the public elementary schools on the
31st March, 1934,