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Country Branch at Stanmore for tuberculous disease of the
hip, was discharged in December and was at no school or
institution at the end of the year.
Two boys with arrested non-pulmonary tuberculosis were
attending public elementary schools in Wimbledon.
(b) Delicate Children. Four delicate children (three boys
and one girl) were at the undermentioned institutions at the
end of the year:—
Brooklands Home, Worthing 1
Oak Bank Open Air School, Sevenoaks 1
Hamilton House, Seaford 1
Farningham Home for Boys, Swanley 1
Six other delicate children were discharged from similar
institutions during the course of 1937 and subsequently
attended ordinary elementary schools. In addition, two
children (a boy and a girl) were taken over by another
Authority when their parents removed from the district.
Twenty-eight delicate children attending public elementary
schools were under the observation of the School
Medical Staff.
(c) Crippled Children. At the end of December, there
were six crippled children at Certified Special Schools, one
undergoing treatment in the orthopaedic wards of St. Thomas's
Hospital, four attending public elementary schools, and one
at no school or institution.
The six cases at Certified Special Schools were at the
following institutions:—
St. Nicholas' and St. Martin's Orthopaedic
Hospital and Special School, Pyrford 2
St. Vincent's Orthopaedic Hospital, Pinner 1
Frogmore Road (L.C.C.) P.D. School 1
Heritage Craft Schools, Chailey 2
Three children who had been undergoing orthopaedic
treatment were discharged during 1937 from the St. Nicholas'
and St. Martin's Orthopaedic Hospital and Special School,
Pyrford. Two of these cases had been taken over from the
Maternity and Child Welfare Committee on the children
attaining the age of five years.
Three of the four crippled children in the public
elementary schools attended the Orthopaedic Clinic and were
periodically examined by the Surgeon.
In 1935, arrangements were made, with the approval of
the Board of Education, for a physically defective child
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