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boys in Royal Eastern Counties Institution, Colchester, and five
boys and five girls attend the Walthamstow Day Centre. Nine
children attend the Water Lane Deaf and Dumb Centre, West
Ham, three attend a similar centre at Gainsborough Road, Walthamstow,
and one the Royal Institution, Edgbaston.
Epileptic Children.— Two children are resident at Chalfont
St. Peters, three at Much Hadham, Hertfordshire, one at the
Epileptic Colony, Lingfield, and one at the Royal Eastern
Counties Institution, Colchesiter.
PROCEDURE IN VERMINOUS CASES AND OTHER
CONDITIONS DUE TO NEGLECT.
When children are found to be verminous they are sent to the
Inspection Clinic and then excluded from School by the School
Medical Officer. After the lapse of several weeks' exclusion from
School, during which time they have been instructed and
cautioned, the parents are summoned to attend before the various
School Attendance Sub-Committees.
The parents of 81 children were thus dealt with, and prosecutions
for non-attendance at School instituted in 25 instances,
as a result of which fines and costs amounting to £7 5s. were
inflicted.
EDUCATION (PROVISION OF MEALS) ACTS.
Four cookery instruction centres have been established by
the Leyton Education Committee at the following schools: Mayville
Road, Ruckholt Road, Capworth Street and Cann Hall Road.
During the year 1919 two of these centres, Mayville Road and
Capworth Street, were used for the provision of dinners for
necessitous children.
In 1920 the two other centres were employed for this purpose.
Ruckholt Road Centre, which prior to 1919 was so used, but was
discontinued as being no longer considered necessary, was reopened
in October, and Cann Hall Road Centre, not previously
so used, was opened in December.