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HANDICAPPED CHILDREN.
During the year. 68 special cases were examined at the clinics
held at the Municipal Offices on Saturday mornings. Of this
number. 20 have been certified as handicapped and not suitable for
education in ordinary schools. At the present time, there are 75
known educationally sub-normal and physically handicapped children
in the area. Details of these children are given below :—
Waiting
Admission.
In Residential Schools for E.S.N, children 2 —
Attending Day School for E.S.N, children 18 4
In Residential Schools for Blind and Partially Sighted children 2 1
In Day Schools for Blind and Partially Sighted children 2 —
In Residential Schools for Deaf and Partially Deaf children 2 —
Attending Day Schools for Deaf and Partially Deaf children 4 1
In Ordinary Schools (Physically Handicapped children) 7 —
In Residential premises for Physically Handicapped children 8 —
In Day Schools for Physically Handicapped children 8 —
In Residential premises for Epileptic children 1 —
In Residential premises for Delicate children 2 —
Attending Day Schools for Delicate children 1
In Residential premises for Mal-adjusted children 7 4
Receiving Home Tuition 1
As will be seen from the foregoing table, there are now ten
handicapped children awaiting admission to special schools, and
of these, four are educationally sub-normal.
There are 36 known ineducable children whose homes are in
the area, 12 of these children are in institutions, and 24 at home.
SCHOOL HYGIENE AND NEW SCHOOLS.
The only improvements worthy of note carried out during
1956 were :—
Burnt Ash County Primary Junior School:
Provision of hot water supply to six wash basins in Girls' Cloakroom.
Burnt Ash County Primary Infants' School:
Provision of hot water supply to six wash basins in Boys' Cloakroom.
Provision of New School Buildings.
Primary Education.
The Pickhurst Junior School was completed during the year
and taken into use.
SCHOOL MEALS AND MILK IN SCHOOLS.
Meals.
There is little to report in the way of development during the
year. The kitchen at the new Technical School for Boys is still
under construction and it is hoped will be ready for use in 1957.
The erection of the new Hayes Secondary Mixed School had not
begun by the close of the year.