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Removed from district 10
Returned to elementary schools 4
Employed at commercial work 1
Employed at draughtsmanship 1
Employed at tailoring 1
Employed at dental work 1
Employed at factories 3
Employed at needlework 3
Unemployed 2
Oak Lodge School for Mentally Defective Children.
During the year 1937, 75 children attended the above school from
the Tottenham area.
Of this number, 22 were girls and 53 boys. Five girls and 13 boys
left in the same period. Of these 9 were excluded by the School Medical
Officer as unsuitable, 2 entered institutions, 3 left the district and 4 left
at the age of 16. Of the leavers, one remained at home, helping her
mother, one girl is employed making soft toys in a factory, one boy is
at a cabinet makers and another boy at a bakery.
Fifty-seven children are provided with free dinners and three pay
half-price. In addition 53 are given free milk.
The majority of the children are bathed at school under the supervision
of the school nurse.
All the senior boys are capable of repairing their own shoes and
receive instruction in woodwork, whilst the senior girls have a complete
course of domestic science and are able to make their own dresses; the
majority of the girls can also weave the material.
Lordship Lane Partially Sighted School.
During 1937 sixteen pupils from Tottenham have attended here.
There were 14 on roll in January and three of these left during the year.
Two other children were admitted, so that by December, 1937, there
were 13 Tottenham children in attendance.