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running of gymnasia, clubs for indoor and outdoor sports, and
dancing classes for school children, all of them of very definite
benefit to the children and young people taking advantage of them.
Mention should also be made of the Boot and Clothing Fund
raised and administered by the Care Committee which supplies
boots and clothing to necessitous children in the schools.
I have also to express my thanks to the Tottenham Deanery
Council for Moral Welfare for assistance received from its representative
in connection with difficult cases whose moral welfare has
required special supervision, and to the National Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Children for the assistance of the local
inspector in dealing with an occasional difficult parent.
XIII.—BLIND, DEAF, DEFECTIVE AND EPILEPTIC
CHILDREN.
A register is kept of all defective children in the district, and
every effort is made to keep this register as accurate as possible.
It is based very largely on the results of the routine and special
medical inspections, but for such of the children as do not attend
school we are indebted for assistance to School Attendance Officers,
School Nurses, Health Visitors and others. All defective cnildren
are kept under supervision and seen by the School Medical Officer
at regular intervals. When the defect is such that a special school
is indicated, steps are taken to secure this provision where at all
possible.
(a) Blind.
There was one child from Wood Green at a certified school for
the blind, while five others whose eyesight was so bad as to make
it difficult for them to profit by instruction in an ordinary elementary
school were in attendance at the Myopic Centre in Lordship Lane,
or, as it should be more accurately described, the School for the
Partially Sighted, not all the children who attend there suffering
from myopia. The children there are under the regular supervision
of the School Ophthalmic Surgeon, and the school is visited
at regular intervals by the School Medical Officer. During the
year certain modifications in the educational methods adopted for
the instruction of these children have been made as a result of the
recommendations contained in a special report of a Committee of
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