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Children for whom spectacles are prescribed are
re-inspected by the School Medical Officer when he visits
the School each term.
(d) Dental Clinic.
During the year five sessions per School Week were
devoted to Dental Inspection and Treatment.
In all, 30 half-days were given to Inspection and 181
to Treatment.
There were 443 gas cases during the year.
Dental Board leaflets on the Care of the Teeth are
distributed to all children shortly before they leave school.
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 for retarded children at Bonner
Hill Road Infants' School, where instruction is 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 are two feeble minded children at Certified
Schools for Mentally Defective Children,