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Deaf and Partially Deaf Children. One deaf girl was
in attendance at the Royal School for the Deaf and Dumb,
at Margate. There were, in addition, two deaf girls attending
Special Schools during 1938, one girl being at the Oak Lodge
(L.C.C.) School for the Deaf, Clapham Common, and one girl
at the Ackmar Road (L.C.C.) Deaf School, Fill ham.
Epileptic Children. One girl, suffering from severe
epilepsy requiring institutional treatment, was at the Chalfont
Colony, Bucks. One boy suffering from severe epilepsy was
discharged from the Maghull Home, Liverpool, in April,
having attained the age of sixteen years.
PHYSICALLY DEFECTIVE CHILDREN.
(a) Tuberculous Children. The Surrey County Council
is the Authority responsible for the treatment of tuberculosis
in Wimbledon. One boy suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis
was admitted to the Highwood Sanatorium, Brentwood,
in 1938. One girl and two boys suffering from non-pulmonary
tuberculosis were also at certified Special Schools at the end
of the year. These included one girl with tuberculous glands
of the neck and one boy with abdominal tuberculosis. They
were both sent to the Royal Sea Bathing Hospital, Margate.
A boy with a tuberculous hip was at the Heatherwood Hospital,
Ascot. A further boy, who had been under treatment
at this hospital for tuberculous disease of the knee joint, was
discharged in September and was at no school or institution
at the end of the year.
There were four boys with arrested non-pulmonary tuberculosis
attending public elementary schools in Wimbledon.
(b) Delicate Children. Two delicate children (one boy
and one girl) were at the undermentioned Certified Special
Schools at the end of the year:—
White Oak Hospital, Swanley 1
Hamilton House, Seaford 1
Four other delicate children were discharged from similar
institutions during the course of 1938 and subsequently
attended ordinary elementary schools.
Twenty-nine delicate children attending public elementary
schools were under the observation of the school medical staff.
In many instances these were home contacts of notified cases
of pulmonary tuberculosis. Other children were suffering
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