[Report 1925] / Medical Officer of Health, Wakefield City.

Wakefield (England). City Council.

Date:: 1925

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successful that in 1926 the number of sessions was doubled. The Centre opened with 4 girls and 4 boys, and altogether 8 boys and 6 girls have attended. Various handicrafts, such as leatherwork and rug making are taught at the Centre, and everything possible is done to draw out the latent capacities of the defectives and to create new interests in life. Children who in the orf^inarv c- school have been dull and dispirited have under the vivifying influences of the Centre wakened up into quite bright and happy persons, and it is not unlikely that some of them, who previously were considered hopeless, will be able in time to enter ordinary employments, although they will continue to need supervision. The success of a Centre like this depends almost entirely on the personality of the supervisor, and we in Wakefield have been very fortunate in securing the voluntary services of so capable and enthusiastic a supervisor as Miss Holmes.