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The following is a list of defective children in outlying Institutions:—
3 Mentally Defective Royal Eastern Counties Institution,
Colchester.
3 „ „ M.D. Centre, Shernhall Street,
thamstow.
1 „ „ Hastings and St. Leonards Home.
1 Deaf and Dumb Royal Institution, Edgbaston.
11 „ „ Water Lane Centre, West Ham.
2 Blind Royal Normal College, Upper
wood.
3 „ East London Home for Blind, Clapton.
1 „ The Cedars, Chorley Wood.
1 Partially Blind Walthamstow Myopic Centre.
1 Epileptic Epileptic Colony, Lingfield.
1 „ Royal Eastern Counties Institution,
Colchester.
3 Physically Defective Brookfields Orthopædic Hospital,
Walthamstow.
1 „ „ Hallywick Institution, Winchmore
Hill.
1 „ „ St. Michael's Convent, Clacton.
1 „ „ St. Vincent's Home, Pinner.
1 „ „ Heatherwood Hospital School, Ascot.
The question of providing massage and electrical treatment
is under consideration, and the appointment of an expert who
shall also be concerned in the general aspect of remedial exercises
is part of the proposed scheme.
Open-Air Education.
Playground Classes.—A playground class was established in
Downsell Road School's Infant Department in 1920, where
a number of tubercular and delicate children are taught under
open-air conditions. The children have considerably benefited and
have gained in weight and general health. Miss Friggens, the
Head Mistress in the Infants' Department of this School, was the
instigator of this class, and she takes the greatest interest in the
children. These children receive milk meals through Miss
Friggens' kind offices.
School Journeys and School Camps.—In 1924 Miss Friggens
applied for permission to take a number of children under her care
to Ashley Camp House, Loughton, an old school building owned
by the Shaftesbury Society and situated in the Forest. Mr. Draper,
the Head Master of Sybourn Street School, likewise applied to be