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13. Clacton—Ogilvie Residential Open Air School.—Visited 22nd April, 1920. Deputation:Councillor
W. M. Bolton, the Rev. H. Martin Thorpe, and Dr. Atkinson.
This home, endowed by the Ogilvie Trust, has accommodation at present for 22 boys and
22 girls, but an extension will shortly be completed whereby the accommodation will be increased
to 100.
The home is a two storey red brick building standing on eight acres of land, which, with the
exception of a portion under cultivation, is used by the children for recreation.
The dining room is a large airy room with oak fittings and parquet floor. Small dining tables
to seat six are provided, the tables being covered with rough, white "Rexine," which has proved
satisfactory. All cooking is done in the adjoining kitchens by steam.
The school overlooking the garden consists of one large room divided by a movable partition
into two classrooms. The rooms are large and airy with low casement windows, and each room has
a large hot water radiator and a fireplace.
Single adjustable desks are provided for the children and being light in structure are easily
transferred.
The classrooms although not opening direct on to the garden are satisfactory both in arrangement
and equipment.
Classes are also held in the garden and in wet or hot weather in the wide sheltered alcoves on
either side of the main building.
Sleeping accommodation is provided on the first storey in dormitories of 10 beds each and
there are five beds out day and night on each open balcony. Ample bath and lavatory accommodation
is provided for the children.
The new extension when completed will give extra dormitory accommodation for children
and maids, manual centre and a new school room and playroom.
This institution is in charge of a matron.
E.—Residential Schools for Cripple Children.
11. Middlesex—Halliwick Cripples Home, Winchmore Hill.-Visited 10th March, 1920.
Deputation:—Councillor W. M. Bolton and Dr. Buchan.
This school has been established by a Voluntary Committee for cripple girls, but the children
sent to it are maintained by Boards of Guardians. It was certified by the Board of Education in
February, 1919. There are 26 girls under 16, and 14 over 16. The girls are cripples as a result
mainly of tuberculous disease of the joints or bones or infant paralysis.
The children under 16 are taught in a classroom constructed of asbestos sheeting and corrugated
iron roofing on the open air principle.
The girls over 16 are mainly taught dressmaking and needlework for trade purposes. All
pupils are resident in the institution and the dormitories and living arrangements that we saw were
satisfactory.
Eight acres of land are attached to the institution.
This home is in charge of a matron.
15. Sussex—Residential School for Cripple Children, Chailey.—Visited 22nd March, 1920
Deputation:—Councillor Mrs. Moore, the Rev. H. Martin Thorpe, and Dr. Buchan.
This is a school established by voluntary effort and maintained in part by voluntary effort
and in part by Boards of Guardians and Education Committees on account of payments in respect
of children sent to the school. It is in charge of a lady superintendent.
The boys' school is separate from the girls' and on the occasion of our visit the boys had been
temporarily displaced from their quarters by disabled and wounded soldiers. The boys' school is
in charge of a matron.
The school has accommodation for 50 cripple girls and 60 cripple boys. These children have
been crippled mainly on account of tuberculosis of the bone or the joints, infantile paralysis or injury.
In addition, the school has accommodation for a few older girls who are taught domestic work such
as laundry and household work. These girls are suffering from anaemia, debility, enlarged glands,
mal-nutrition and the like. A small number of younger children of from two to five years are also
admitted suffering from enlarged glands or early tuberculosis or infantile paralysis or the like. They
are taught by the Montessori method, a trained Montessori teacher being attached to the institution.
The girls' school stands on about eight acres of ground. The schools are under the charge
of a hospital matron and a visiting Physician.
A trained Masseuse (who is blind) lives on the premises and is employed in connection with
the restoration of function as far as this may be possible to the paralysed muscles of the children.