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BLIND, DEAF, DEFECTIVE AND EPILEPTIC
CHILDREN.
We operate the model regulations of the Board of Education,
which work satisfactorily, to detect these children. Our sources
of information are parents, attendance officers, teachers, school
nurses, health visitors, other authorities where address has been
changed, hospitals and institutions. We thus have very complete
knowledge, and hardly any exceptional children in the district are
not known to the Department.
Blind and Partially Blind Children.
There were 4 blind and 6 partially blind children at the end
-of 1942, accommodated at:—
Royal London Hospital for the Blind, Dorton,
near Aylesbury 3
London Lodge School 1
White Oak, Swanley 1
Special Day School, Walthamstow 5
Deaf Children.
Of 33 children too deaf to be taught at an elementary school 22
are attending at the Special Day School and the remainder at the
Committee's Evacuation School at Rustington.
Mentally Defective Children.
Children certified by the Medical Officers as mentally defective
are accommodated at:—
Oak Lodge Special Day School, Finchley 33
St. Joseph's, Dunmow 1
Banstead M.D. School 2
Low Grade mental defectives are referred to the County
Council.
Epileptic Children.
Two children are being treated at Lingfield Epileptic Colony
and one is awaiting admission.
Physically Defective Children.
The Committee's special open-air school at Hayling Island for
delicate children had temporarily to be closed in August, 1940.
Since that time children have been placed in other suitable accommodation
on recommendation by the Medical Officers, and 36 cases
were dealt with this year.