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DEAF CHILDREN.
The Authority has Deaf Centres at Water Lane and Frederick
Road with places for 40 and 44 deaf mutes respectively. These
schools are visited annually by the Chief Assistant School Mecdical
Officer, and recently arrangements have been sanctioned for an
annual examination by .An Aural Surgeon.
A few of the cases belong to the partially deaf class, and one
or two are aphasic cases. Children from outside areas are admitted
by arrangement with the Local Education Authority, when
vacant places permit.
Institutional cases:—
Royal School for Deaf and Dumb, Margate, 1 boy, 4 girls.
Jewish School for Deaf and Dumb, Wandsworth—1 girl.
After Care Committee Reports of Leavers during 1929:—
Water Lane Deaf Centre.
1 Girl employed as clerk by a well-known firm at 17s.
per week.
1 Girl practically deaf—no record.
1 Boy—no work.
1 Boy was employed at Boot Mending and French Polishing.
1 Boy assists father, who is a greengrocer in Stratford
Market.
Frederick Road Deaf Centre.
1 Girl helping mother at home.
1 Girl removed from district.
1 Boy transferred to a "hearing" school.
EPILEPSY.
Table III. (d) gives a summary of the epileptics found among
school children during 1929. Only the severe cases are excluded
from school. A number of West Ham epileptic children are
boarded out at Institutions as follows:—
St. Elizabeth's School for Epileptics, Much Hadam—1 boy.
Lingfield Colony for Epileptics—1 boy.
Forest Gate Sick Home—2 boys, 2 girls.
Fountain Mental Hospital, Tooting—1 boy.
There are six cases of severe epilepsy out of school (5 boys,
1 girl), and one girl with slight epilepsy.
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