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Wickham. A third child with severe rheumatic heart disease
died whilst under treatment at the Children's Heart Home,
West Wickham.
Fourteen 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 1938 there were twenty-seven children
(thirteen boys and fourteen girls) in attendance.
The number of children attending the Special School at
the end of 1937 was thirty.
Four boys and one girl were admitted during 1938.
Four boys and four girls left the school during the year.
Of these, three boys left because their parents removed from
the district, two girls attained the age of sixteen years, and
one boy and one girl had made such progress as to justify
their leaving before the age of sixteen. One girl left to
attend a Convent School. In addition to the foregoing, one
girl attending the school died.
Every child attending the school is examined once a year
in addition to the routine medical inspections. The medical
officer visited the school, on an average, once a week for
this purpose.
Ten children were examined in the routine way in the
following prescribed groups:—
Second Age Group 3
Third Age Group 7
The following defects were found:—
Requiring Requiring
Treatment. Observation.
Orthopaedic Defects 1
Defective Vision — 3
In addition there were sixteen special inspections and
thirty-three re-inspections at the Health Centre of children
attending this school. Eight children were referred from
the special inspections for treatment at the Minor Ailment
Clinic, with the undermentioned defects
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