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cookery and laundry, and the boys, brush making, boot repairing
and woodwork.
"The elder boys join the boys of the William McGuffie School
at football once a week.
"In the summer months the senior boys and girls go to swimming
with the children of the adjacent school.
" During the winter months the senior and intermediate children
have had a course of folk and other forms of dancing.
"In addition to these subjects, gardening has been started—a
disused portion of the boys' playground being used for the purpose.
"In the summer months lessons are taken in the open-air whenever
the weather is suitable.
"The children suffering from aphasia and other speech defects
are taught to speak on the same method as that used for the deaf
child. Speech is thus slowly acquired, and with the individual
instruction given, progress in other subjects is generally made and
sustained in all directions.
"No children have left during the year.
"Satisfactory reports have been received from various former
scholars and five or six have paid visits to the school. All are in
good employment with one exception.
(iii) Physically Defective School.—Your Authority provides a
Physically Defective School with accommodation for 80 pupils of
both sexes.
Co-operation at Orthopaedic Clinics.—The large majority of new
cases referred to the Clinic continued to be from the Infant Welfare
Centres.
The arrangement whereby the Health Visitors in turn and the
Welfare Masseuse attended each clinic were continued. In addition,
towards the end of the year, the assistant Medical Officers also
attended in rotation. The close liaison has proved very valuable.
Towards the end of 1934 an additional quarterly clinic was
sanctioned by the Maternity and Child Welfare Committee to deal
with the large number of children under five years of age,
The statistical report which follows shows the scope of the work
and the increase in the number attending.
The school is under the orthopaedic charge of Mr. B. Whitchurch
Howell, F.R.C.S.. Consulting Orthopaedic Surgeon, who reports as
follows :—
"The statistical reports carefully compiled by the orthopaedic
masseuses, Miss Garratt and Miss Taylor, show the types of cases
treated and the increase in the amount of work done.