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At Crosby Road, Forest Gate, a Day Open-air School is situated
on the same site as, but separated from, the Knox Road
School. This open-air school has accommodation for sixty delicate
girls. The Residential Open-air School at Fyfield, Ongar, is
mentioned on page 36.
There are two special Centres for deaf children. A Consulting
Aural Surgeon examines and reports upon the cases from time to
time. In addition for the school children there are two part-time
Ophthalmic specialists available. Artificial sunlight is provided
at two Sunlight Clinics, one at Welfare Road, for children under
five years of age under the Maternity and Child Welfare Scheme,
and the other for school children is attached to the Balaam Street
Hospital. Special electrical and other treatment for orthopædic
cases is provided at the Children's Hospital, Balaam Street.
One Nursery School is situated at Rosetta Road (the Edith
Kerrison), and another at Village Street (the Rebecca Cheetham).
Each of these schools can accommodate one hundred and twenty
children between the ages of two and five years.
A panel of three eminent specialists is available to any general
practitioner who desires a second opinion on any difficult case of
confinement. Maternity hospital beds are also available for such
cases, in addition to beds for cases of fever following confinements.
Treatment by radium is obtainable at Whipps Cross Hospital
and at Queen Mary's Hospital.
Cases of surgical tuberculosis are drafted by the Tuberculosis
Officer to various General and Special Hospitals in London and
district. The average number of cases under treatment is fifty.
A number of adults attend Voluntary Hospitals for treatment independent
of the Council's scheme.
CONVALESCENCE.
Two beds are reserved at the St. Mary's Convalescent Home,
Birchington, for those mothers with their babies needing convalescence
after confinement.
Ordinary convalescence for children (other than those going
to the Margate Home) is arranged by the Council through the
Invalid Crippled Children's Society and the Invalid Children's Aid
Association. The former have a Convalescent Home at Shoeburyness
and also, as well as the latter, send cases to different convalescent
homes throughout the country. On an average there are
60 children in convalescent homes through the Council's scheme.
In addition to the above, there are several Voluntary organisations
by means of which a number of children are sent to various
institutions for convalescent treatment.
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