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Two girls are employed at packing in a local factory.
Two girls are employed in a box-making factory.
One girl is learning to be a nursemaid in a children's home.
One girl has removed to another district with her parents and
is attending a suitable sight-saving school.
Four boys of school age have removed from the district, but
only one of them is attending a suitable sight-saving school.
One boy is employed in a suitcase factory.
One boy is employed with a jobbing gardener.
One boy is still without employment."
(ii) Deaf Centre.—Miss Coates has kindly contributed the
following report on the work done in 1933:—
"This school is situated in Gainsford Road, adjacent to the
William Morris Central Schools, and has a capacity for 20 children.

"All the children were from the Borough of Walthamstow.
"Three children left during the year. Good employment was
found for one girl in a toy factory, and for one boy as a cabinet
maker. The other boy (Aphasic aged 10 years), left to go into a
home on account of his progressive physical disabilities.
"The work of the school has been carried on successfully
during the period under review. All the children are taught on
the oral method, viz. : by speech and language by means of lip
reading. The elder children are also taught Scripture, general
knowledge, history, geography and arithmetic. Organised games
are taken once a week in the large playground of the adjoining
school.
"Handwork is taught throughout the school. The elder girls
have in addition, a course of laundry and cookery, and the elder
boys have a course of woodwork at the William McGuffie housewifery
and woodwork centres respectively.