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Vale Read Nursery School.
This Nursery School was evacuated at the commencement
of the war to Elvedon Hall, but, as these premises were
required by the military authorities, similar suitable
accommodation was found at Braunsten Manor, Near Oakham,
the children being transferred there in October, 1941.
Medical attention and treatment for the children
is carried cut by a Visiting Medical Officer, appointed
for this purpose, and periodical visits are made by the
Committee's School Medical and Dental Officers.
All new entrants to the school are submitted to
special medical and dental inspection before evacuation,
and immunisation against diphtheria is carried cut as
far as possible prior to their departure.
An outbreak of measles occurred in the early part
of the year while the children were at Elvedon Hall.
One of the Medical Officers visited the school and all the
children were given an injection of immune globin with a
view to controlling the spread of infection, with beneficial
results. A School Nurse was sent from Tottenham to assist
with the nursing of the children.
Later in the year there were a few cases of mumps,
but apart from this and the outbreak of measles, the children
appeared to derive much benefit from their country surroundings
and regularised lives.
School for the Deaf.
As reported last year the deaf children evacuated from
this district are accommodated at suitable premises at
Rustington, Sussex.
The deaf children remaining in Tottenham are receiving
instruction and training in temporary quarters at West
Green School. Speech training sessions for both stammerers
and other defects of speech are held at this school, but
shortage of staff renders impossible the ideal of having a
full-time school for these children.
Oak Ledge Special School.
Mentally defective children who are educable, attend
the Special Day School at Oak Lodge Finchley. This school is
under the management of a Joint Board consisting of representatives
of Finchley, Wood Green and Hornsey, and still remains limited
in its scope, owing to partial occupation by Fire Service
personnel.
Special Day School for Partially Sighted Children.
These Tottenham children certified by the Committee's
Ophthalmic Surgeon as requiring education for the partially
blind attend the White Hart Lane Special Day School which is
situated in the administrative district of Wood Green.
Special School for Physically Defective Children.
Children found to be physically defective attend the
Special Day School which is now accommodated temporarily at
West Green School.
G. HAMILTON HOGBEN.
School Medical Officer.