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MENTALLY DEFECTIVE, BLIND AND DEAF CHILDREN.
One blind child is maintained at the East London Home and
School for Blind Children at Clapton.
Two mentally defective children are resident in the Hastings
and St. Leonard's Home, and one in Hopwell Hall, Derbyshire.
One child attends the Walthamstow Centre for Mentally Defective
Children.
Seven children attend the Water Lane Deaf and Dumb
Centre, West Ham, and three attend a similar centre at Gainsborough
Road, Walthamstow.
Epileptic Children.—Two girls are resident at Chalfont St.
Peter's and one girl at Much Hadham, Herts. Two boys are
resident at Littleton Home School, Cambridge.
PROCEDURE IN VERMINOUS CASES AND OTHER
CONDITIONS DUE TO NEGLECT.
When children are found to be verminous they are sent to the
Inspection Clinic and then excluded from School by the School
Medical Officer. After the lapse of several weeks' exclusion from
School, during which time they have been instructed and
cautioned, the parents are summoned to attend before the various
School Attendance Sub-Committees.
The parents of 87 children were thus dealt with, and prosecutions
for non-attendance at School instituted in 54 instances,
as a result of which fines and costs amounting to £12 10s. 0d.
were inflicted.
EDUCATION (PROVISION OF MEALS) ACT.
Meals have continued to be provided during the year at three
of the School Cooking Centres—Ruckholt Road, Mayville Road
and Capworth Street Schools. The meals are prepared by
the pupils attending for cookery lessons, under the supervision of
the Instructress at each Centre. They are served by a woman
assistant specially appointed for this purpose, who assists in