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Provision is also made whereby three beds are reserved for
in-patient treatment at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital.
The first Clinic held by Mr. Barnett was on the 20th December.
The numbers that will have to be dealt with are as follows:—
Orthopiedic Cases 80
Remedial Exercises Cases 113
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There were, at the end of 1929, 60 mentally defective children
who have been certified as requiring special school education, apart
from 6 in attendance at Mossford School. Twenty-two of these
children were at home, not receiving any education at all.
In connection with the suggestions embodied in the Hadow
Report, the Director of Education presented a Memorandum on the
Re-organisation of the Schools under the jurisdiction of the Authority,
to the School Management Sub-Committee at its meeting on
the 9th December, 1929. In the summary on the re-organisation,
paragraph (91) states: —
"The pupils of Chadwell School ultimately to be transferrd as
opportunity affords, the Chadwell School to be utilised for the
education of retarded children drawn from the Borough as a whole."
It has also been suggested that accommodation should be
provided at this School, for cripple children and those suffering from
severe heart disease, etc.
There are only 21 children in Ilford who are so physically
defective as to require such special school education, 8 of these are
sufficiently fit to attend an ordinary school if special precautions are
taken as to their welfare.
The Special Sub-Committee appointed by the Education Committee
to consider the question of an additional School Clinic
met in February and recommended that a Clinic be established in
the eastern portion of the Borough. The Education Committee at
its meeting on the 18th March recommended that the Clinic be
erected on the school site in Goodmayes Lane (Mayesbrook Site).