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The unit is fully equipped for physiotherapy and speech therapy and in the latter
connection a speech therapy tape recording apparatus is installed.
By the end of the year 8 children, all under the age of seven years of age, were in
the unit. All were receiving physiotherapy and 4 speech therapy. In addition, one child
under the age of 2 years, was attending for treatment on an out-patient basis.
WEST HAM SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF
The capacity of this school, which also takes children from East Ham and contiguous
areas of Essex is 70, and the maximum number of children on the roll during the year was 77,
including 48 extra-district cases. Increased accommodation will shortly be available. Of
the 83 children in attendance during the year, 22 West Ham cases and 45 extra-district cases
were regarded as deaf and 9 West Ham cases and 7 extra-district cases as partially deaf and
suited for instruction with hearing aids. The admissions to and discharges from the school
are set out below:-
Admissions
West Ham Extra-district
Totally Deaf 2 7 Essex
1 East Ham
Partially deaf 3 1 Essex
1 East Ham
Leavers
Totally Deaf 2 2 Essex
1 East Ham
2 Barking
Partially Deaf 1 Nil
FYFIELD RESIDENTIAL OPEN AIR SCHOOL
During the year 73 West Ham boys and 42 West Ham girls were admitted, and 73 West
Ham boys and 25 West Ham girls were discharged. Of extra-district children 24 boys and
10 girls were admitted and 29 boys and 8 girls were discharged. The West Ham children
are reinspected a few months after they leave Fyfield to ascertain if their improvement
has been maintained. Of the 73 who attended for examination, 65 showed continued improvement,
but 8 children had not maintained their condition and were given the opportunity of
having a further stay at the school.
Children are admitted to the school each term and a few mid-term. During the year
the Chief Assistant School Medical Officer made six visits to the school for the purpose
of reinspecting the children.
For some time past it had been increasingly difficult to ascertain as "delicate"
a sufficient number of children to maintain Fyfield at its full complements this
particularly applied to girls. There are several reasons that may possibly account for
this happy state of affairs. The general condition of the children has improved. It is
significant that of suspected eases of malnutrition referred to the paediatrician for
investigation no frank cases have been confirmed since 1949. The provision of milk and
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