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One girl was attending the Hearnville Road Partially Deaf
School (L.G.C.) at Balham.
Epileptic Children. One girl, suffering from severe epilepsy
requiring institutional treatment was admitted to the Chalfont
Colony, Bucks., and was in residence there at the end of the
year.
PHYSICALLY DEFECTIVE CHILDREN.
(а) Tuberculous Children. The Surrey County Council is the
Authority responsible for the treatment of tuberculosis in
Wimbledon.
Two children suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis and two
suffering from non-pulmonary tuberculosis were in suitable
institutions at the end of December.
(b) Delicate Children. Four delicate children (two boys and
two girls) were at the undermentioned institutions at the end
of the year:—
Farningham Home for Boys, Swanley.
St. John's Home, Brighton.
Brooklands Home, Worthing.
White Oak Hospital, Swanley.
Three other delicate children were discharged from similar
institutions during the course of 1933 and subsequently attended
ordinary elementary schools.
Forty-three delicate children attending public elementary
schools were under the observation of the School Medical Staff.
A great number of these were home contacts of tuberculosis and
were in attendance at the Dispensary.
(c) Crippled Children. At the end of' December, there were
four crippled children at Certified Special Schools, twenty
attending public elementary schools, and one at no school or
institution.
The four cases at Certified Special Schools were at the
following institutions:—
St. Nicholas' & St. Martin's Orthopaedic
Hospital & Special School, Pyrford 1
Heritage Craft Schools, Chailey 2
Frogmore Road Physically Defective
School (L.C.C.) 1
Five crippled children (four boys and one girl) who had been
undergoing orthopaedic treatment at the St. Nicholas' and St.
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