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DEFECTIVE CHILDREN.
Exceptional children are brought to the notice of the
School Medical Officer by the School Nurses, Health Visitors
and Attendance Officers.
The Teachers are invited to bring any children they
consider defective before the School Medical Officer. If
suffering from a physical defect, they are admitted to the
Special Open-Air Day School if considered unsuitable to
attend an ordinary Public Elementary School.
There is no Special Day School for mentally defective
Children.
There are special classes at Bonner Hill Road Infants'
School, where instruction ii based upon the Montessori
System, at the Junior Mixed, and Central Girls' and also at
Richmond Road Central Boys' School.
Very backward and feeble minded children in the
Borough are transferred to these special classes on the recommendation
of the School Medical Officer.
There is one feeble minded child at a Certified School
for Mentally Defective Children.
There are two deaf children at Certified Schools for the
Deaf, and one under the age of seven at a Public Elementary
School.
SUMMER CAMP.
St. Peter's Girls' School.
The Head Teacher, Miss A. Thompson, and the
Assistants were able to raise funds to take a party of girls
to Dovercourt for a week, June 17th to 24th.
Prior to departure all the girls were examined by the
School Medical Officer.
The party consisted of 27 girls, 6 of whom were taken
for the holiday entirely free of cost, while 13 paid in full,
and 8 in part.
Similar Excursions have been made every year since
1922, with the exception of last year, and I think Miss
Thompson is to be congratulated upon her effort which
entails much work and responsibility, and is so beneficial to
the Children.
It seems unlikely that the undertaking will be repeated
in the future.