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Children with lung diseases were given daily deep breathing exercises,
and others continued to attend special clinics for therapy.
The work of the school has continued smoothly along the same
lines as previously. The close liaison with the Cerebral Palsy Unit
continues and has again proved most useful and I should like to thank
all the staff concerned for their help and co-operation.
The Juvenile Employment Officer has also been most helpful and is
always ready to visit the school and interview parents of leavers about
their future employment."
Cerebral Palsy Unit.
(i) Dr. D. L. Woolf, Consultant in Physical Medicine to the Cerebral
Palsy Unit, reports as follows:—
"There have been five new admissions during the year and five
discharges. Twenty-two children are at present on roll.
The medical auxiliaries and teaching staff continue to work in close
liaison, and fortunately, on the medical side, we are again fully established.
I am grateful to Mrs. Lennox, the physiotherapist, who managed
so well when single handed.
Conditions in the treatment rooms could be improved considerably,
and it is hoped next winter will see the establishment adequately
heated throughout, and eventually, when money is available, rubber
flooring will replace the stone floors which at present exist, especially
in the treatment rooms.
I would again like to express my thanks to the medical auxiliaries
and teaching staff for all their cheerful co-operation and assistance
during the past year."
(ii) Dr. D. M. B. Gross, Medical Officer in charge, makes the following
report:—
"The Unit has now been open since May, 1955, and at the end of
1958 there were 22 children on roll, 12 males and 10 females. One child
from the Ilford Division appears on the waiting list and will be admitted
on reaching five years of age.
During the year two children were examined with a view to admission;
one was accepted and came from the Ilford Area; the other
child from the Mid-Essex Division was found unsuitable owing to the
fact that she was not a true cerebral palsy.
5 children were discharged for the following reasons;—
Ilford —Removed to Basildon.
Romford —1. Transfer to residential special school.
2. Reported ineducable under Section 57 (3)
Education Act 1944.
Walthamstow— Transferred to Wanstead Occupation Centre.
South Essex —Transferred to Ogilvie School.
Admissions (all boys) in 1958 were as follows:—•
1 Cerebral Palsy
2 Athetosis
1 Generalised spasticity
1 Spasticity of lower limbs
from these areas:—Mid-Essex 2
—Ilford 2
—Romford 1