Residential Schools for Epileptic Children in England

At the Lingfield Colony for Epileptics in Surrey, England, we have 255 children between the ages of five and sixteen attending our Residential Special School. They are sent here by Local Education Authorities from all parts of England, who pay a weekly fee to cover education, maintenance, medical treatment and clothing. Only " educable" children are admitted, or retained, an intelligence quotient of 60 being taken as the lower limit of educability. Until April 1945 every child was certified by a School Medical Officer to be suffering from epilepsy so frequent or so severe as to render him unfit for attendance at a public elementary school; but under the new Education Act the certificate only states that he requires, on account