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PROVISION OF SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS.
Surgical appliances were supplied, and repairs and replacements
effected in 254 instances. These were in respect of 80 children who were
suffering from the following defects:—
Infantile and other forms
of Paralysis 27
Tuberculosis—
Hip 2
Spine 1
Bones and Joints 1
Flat-foot 25
Talipes 5
Other forms of Deformed
Feet 5
Amputated Leg 4
Other Cases 10
BLIND, DEAF, DEFECTIVE AND EPILEPTIC
CHILDREN.
(a) Review of the methods adopted for ascertaining and dealing with
children who are defective within the meaning of Part V of the Education
Act, 1921, and of the adequacy of such methods.
Information is received from many sources of the occurrence of
defects in children under this heading, namely, at school inspections,
from parents, attendance officers, health visitors and school nurses, from
other authorities, where there has been change of address, and from
hospitals and institutions.
It is inconceivable that any can escape for any length of time from
one or other of the means of information respecting them and available
to the Local Health Authority. Usually the information is sent with
a view of suitable provision being made for the defective child.
Children supposed to come within the scope of Part V are referred,
in the first instance, in the case of vision, to the Eye Specialist who
advises to which Institution the child should be sent.
Thus there are at:—
Lordship Lane Day School for Partially Blind 10 children
East London School for the Blind 3 „
White Oak, Swanley, Kent 2 „
In the case of deaf children, the Aurist is consulted, with the result
that there are at the Tottenham School for the Deaf, 20 children. Two