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made the following grants in respect of children:—Nourishment, 6;
Christmas grants, 17; cases sent to Convalescent Homes, 16. In
co-operation with the Education Committee, 27 cases of Physically
Defective Children were recommended for Convalescent Home
treatment.
(g) Co-operation with Brookfield Orthopaedic Hospital and with
the Walthamstow Dispensary in respect of treatment for Tonsils
and Adenoids is acknowledged elsewhere.
17. BLIND, DEAF, DEFECTIVE AND EPILEPTIC
CHILDREN.
Table 3 at the end of the Report gives a full analysis of all
exceptional children in the Borough.
(a) The ascertainment of such children can justly be claimed to
be as complete as possible owing to the splendid co-operation of
Mr. S. J. Longman, the Superintendent Attendance Officer, and
his colleagues. Exceptional children are discovered even before
reaching school age by the periodical street census carried out by
the Attendance Department.
(b) Mentally Defective children not in special schools are
supervised by the Essex County Council, the local Mental
Deficiency Authority, in the case of idiots and imbeciles, and at
the Occupation Centre (provided by the Essex Voluntary Association
for Mental Welfare) in the case of ineducable mental defectives.
The work of the Association is reported under Section 16 (e).
(c) General revision of the work of the Authority's Special
Schools:—
(i) Blind School.—Your Committee provide a Blind School at
Wood Street, with accommodation for 85 children of both sexes.