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A new school has been opened on the site of the old one for children
dull of hearing, and it is hoped that a class will be established there for
the cure of stammering.
Provision has been made, in a small way, for educating physically
defective children. Two classrooms have been set apart at Parkhurst Road
Infants' School as a Special School for Physically Defective Children,
together with the necessary cloakroom and lavatory accommodation.
Approximately, 50 children are in attendance, and the nature of the
defects from which they are suffering is as follows:—
Infantile Paralysis 27
Infantile Paralysis and Rhematoid Arthritis 1
Congenital Deformities 3
Cerebral Diplegia 1
Fragilitas Oseum 1
Heart Disease (acquired) 2
Heart Disease (congenital) 4
Tuberculosis:—
Spine 6
Knee 2
Hip 2
SECONDARY SCHOOLS.
Table I, page 16, sets out the number of children, under their separate
ages, examined in the secondary schools during the year.
Tables II—IV, pages 17—19, show in detail the defects discovered
during the inspections, and the number of defective children who were
subsequently found to have received treatment.
REMEDIAL EXERCISES.
429 children suffering from the undermentioned defects have been
treated; the number last year was 922. Cures were claimed in respect of
92 children, and the remainder are reported to have benefitted by the
treatment given:—
Curvature of Spine (threatened and established) 198
Round Shoulders 116
Other cases of deformity (flat foot, torticollis, disparity of
shoulders, defective development of chest, infantile
paralysis, etc.) 115