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In addition, the Invalid Children's Aid Association made
the necessary arrangements for the admission of five children
to special hospital schools, the Education Committee undertaking
the cost of maintenance and treatment.
Surgical appliances and special boots were provided in
ten cases. Eight children who were being sent to convalescent
homes were supplied with clothes. In one case, extra nourishment
at home was provided at the request of the School
Medical Department.
The approximate number of children who were on their
books, and being visited, in 1938, was four hundred and
twenty. It is pleasant to record that in every case in which
the assistance of the Invalid Children's Aid Association was
requested by the School Medical Department it was most
readily and freely given. The Education Committee makes
a contribution of ten guineas per annum to the Invalid
Children's Aid Association.
The local representative of the National Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Children has always been ready to
co-operate in every way. In a few cases, difficulty is experienced
from time to time in persuading parents of the
necessity of providing their children with suitable spectacles.
In such instances the services of the National Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Children have been found most
helpful. Other cases in which their officer was asked to
interest himself were those in which the home conditions and
care were found to be unsatisfactory and repeated visits by
the nursing staff had failed to effect the desired improvement.
A contribution of two guineas is made annually to the
National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
13. BLIND, DEAF, DEFECTIVE AND EPILEPTIC
CHILDREN.
A special register is kept in the School Medical Department
of all defective children. Information regarding new
cases is furnished by the head teachers, school attendance
officers, and school nurse-health visitors. Sometimes such
cases are referred by family doctors.
The school medical inspector devotes on an average
two sessions per week to visiting the schools for the purpose
of ascertaining and examining suspected cases of mental deficiency.
Communications are also addressed periodically to
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