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The Walthamstow Mental and After-Care Committee has
given financial assistance for summer outings and Christmas
treats, and this assistance also we gratefully acknowledge.
Walthamstow Committee for Mental Welfare and AfterCare.—In
addition to the work carried out by the local Committee
on behalf of the Essex Voluntary Association referred
to in the preceding report, two parties were arranged during
1935 for all those defectives on the after-care register, which
includes all leavers from the Special School since the year
1920. At the Christmas party a special entertainment and
gifts were provided.
It is the first year that a Christmas party and entertainment
has been arranged, and the Silver Jubilee grant from
"the Borough Council made this possible in addition to the
financial assistance rendered to Walthamstow children in
connection with Occupation Centre outings.
A grant was also received for the first time from the Essex
County Council (Sunday Cinemas grant) and, as a result, the
•Committee has been able to assist defectives in many ways
which otherwise would have been impossible owing to lack
•of funds.
13. BLIND, DEAF, DEFECTIVE AND EPILEPTIC
CHILDREN.
Table 3 at the end of the report gives a full analysis of all
exceptional children in the area.
(a) The ascertainment of such children continued along the
lines detailed in last year's report and has, generally, been
adequate.
(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
ineducable mental defectives. An occupational centre is provided
by the Essex Voluntary Association for Mental Welfare.
The work of this Association is reported under Section 12 (d).
(c) General review 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. The following table shows the classification of children