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GUARDIANSHIP
The number of defectives under guardianship at the end of the year was 4 (1 male and
3 females). All are with guardians outside the area of West Ham and arrangements have been
made for them to be visited periodically by the welfare officer of the local authorities in
which they reside. Medical visits are made annually by one of the Council's Medical Officers.
OCCUPATION CENTRE.
In July an Occupation Centre for mentally defective children was opened in a building
forming part of the old Civil Defence Depot in Sebert Road. This building which was previously
used as a store by the Highways Department, had been adapted to provide a large
classroom suitable for 25 children together with a kitchen, office, cloakroom, store and
sanitary offices.
The opening of the Centre meets a long standing need since it provides the only meaE
of training children who have been found to be unable to derive benefit from the education
provided in either primary schools or special schools for the educationally subnormal. Its
value has already been amply demonstrated by the progress the children have made even in so
short a time as five months. That this progress has not been confined only to their work
at the Centre is confirmed by the reports from parents of improvement in the childrens1
behaviour at home.
In reporting the success of this new venture, it is fitting that credit should be
given to the Supervisor, Miss E.F.Forshaw, and her staff for their excellent work with the
children and for the enthusiastic and resourceful manner in which they have tackled the
problems of organisation which have arisen from time to time during these early months.
NATIONAL ASSISTANCE ACT, 1948, SECTION 47.
No circumstances arose in which it was deemed necessary to take action under this
Section.
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