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suffering from a large meningocele to be educated in his
own home by a teacher provided by the Education Committee.
This boy, on account of his physical condition, is
unsuitable for attendance at either a day or residential
special school. During 1937 his general condition showed
improvement and it was found that he was deriving considerable
benefit from the education he is receiving at home.
(d) Children with Heart Disease. At the end of 1937,
two boys, one with rheumatic heart disease and the other with
a severe congenital heart, were undergoing treatment at the
following institutions:—
Frogmore Road (L.C.C.) Special School 1
St. John's Open Air School, Woodford Bridge 1
Four other children, suffering from rheumatism or
chorea with cardiac complications, were discharged from
Certified Special Schools during the course of the year. One
of these was at the Edgar Lee Heart Home, one at St. John's
Home, Kemptown, and the other two at the Children's Heart
Home, West Wickham. The child discharged from the Edgar
Lee Heart Home was admitted later in the year to a local
hospital, where he was still under treatment at the end of
1937.
Eight children with heart disease were in attendance
at public elementary schools at the end of December. They
were kept under observation periodically and the school curriculum
was modified in a manner suitable to their requirements.
SPECIAL SCHOOL.
The Education Committee has its own Special School
with accommodation for fifty children.
At the end of 1937 there were thirty children (thirteen
boys and seventeen girls) in attendance. In addition, one boy
was receiving education in a special residential institution.
The total number of children attending such Special
Schools at the end of the year was thirty-one, the same figure
as at the end of 1936.
Two boys and two girls were admitted to the Special
School during 1937.
Two boys left the school on attaining the age of sixteen
years and one boy was removed from the register as his parents
had left the district.
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