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Certification.—The School Medical Officer and two of the
assistant School Medical Officers are recognised by the Board of
Education as certifying officers.

School for Mentally Defective Children.—Your Authority provide
a special school with accommodation for 130 children.
(vii) Child Guidance.—One case first referred in 1936 and
four cases referred in 1938 still continued the London Child Guidance
Clinic. Nine new cases were referred to the London Child Guidance
Clinic and two new cases to the Tavistock Clinic.
166 attendances were made by these patients at a cost of
£32 19s. 6d., against which certain recoveries were made.
(viii) Speech Therapy.—Miss I. M. S. Knight, the Speech
Therapist, reports as follows:—
"The treatment for speech correction continued on much the
same lines as in other years. As I travel round the County of
Bedfordshire, working on slightly different lines since evacuation
took place, I occasionally meet children who used to attend the
clinic, and without exception there has been no relapse into old
habits, but rather the reverse.
"Since evacuation took place it has been my privilege to make
contact with types of cases in need of psycho-therapy, including
delinquency, enuresis, difficult behaviour, nervous symptoms and,
of course, speech cases.
"The quick response and complete recovery in most cases of
enuresis was very gratifying after a few talks on psychological
lines brought down to the level of the child's understanding. This