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made on the re-inspection card. The case is only closed when
satisfactory treatment has been obtained.
In 1921 the school nurses paid 1,696 visits to homes.
The effect of the measures taken resulted in satisfactory
treatment being obtained in 91 per cent. of the cases.
TREATMENT OF CLEANLINESS.
A group of schools is allotted to each whole time school
nurse, and each school has been visited twice during the year.
The total number of children examined by the nurses in the year
was 34,015. The number of individual children found unclean
was 3,798, of which 589 were referred to the clinic at the Town
Hall.
Children are given ointment and printed instructions for the
cleansing of heads.
Soaking the hair with solution and combing with Sacker's
hygienic comb is a very effective method of removing nits. One
of these combs is in use at the clinic. Some parents have purchased
this comb from the patentee, but the cost is beyond the
average parent. Possibly some scheme might be put in operation
whereby the Council could supply these combs and parents
hire them at a small fee per day.
115 cases were brought before the Attendance Sub-Committee.
Twenty-two parents were prosecuted, and as a result of
which fines and costs amounting to £5 10s. 0d. were inflicted.
EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN.
Leyton has no special schools for these children. A proposal
to set apart certain class-rooms in Harrow Green and
Farmer Road Schools for mentally defective children failed to
receive the assent of the Board of Education on the grounds of
the need for economy at the present time.
Arrangements have been made with other authorities for the
accommodation of certain defective children:—
1 Mentally Defective—Forest Lane, West Ham.
1 „ „ —Lyttleton House School, Cambridge.
7 „ „ —Royal Eastern Counties Institute,
chester.
6 „ „ —WalthamstO'W Day Centre.