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was formed in 1937 and instruction in sense training, simple story telling,
picture drawing etc. was given and facilities for excursions, outdoor games,
amusements and certain simple cottage industries provided.
10. In Bombay the training of mentally defective children is under-
taken at the Byramjee Jeejeebhoy Home for Children, Matunga, which is
maintained by the Society for the Protection of Children in Western India.
A specially trained lady teacher has been engaged for the purpose and she
works under the direction of the Honorary Psychiatrist of the Home. The
children are taught on Montessori lines and the training includes classes on
sewing, embroidery, raffica work and bead work, etc.
11. Mentally defective children in Bengal are trained at the Kurseong
Home in Darjeeling District and the Bodhana Niketan in the suburbs of
Calcutta. Both are private institutions.
12. No facilities for the training of mentally defective children exist in
the United Provinces, Punjab, Bihar, Central Provinces and Berar, Assam,
Sind, North-West Frontier Province, Orissa, Baluchistan and Coorg.
13. Arrangements for the care of the mentally defective are undoubtedly
inadequate, a condition which obtains in most agricultural countries and
which is not peculiar to India. With increasing urbanisation and
e d u c a t i o n t h e r e i s a g r e a t e r d e m a n d t h a t t h e s e p a t i e n t s s h o u l d b e c a r e d f o r a n d
that institutional treatment for the indigent mental patients is a charge on
the State. A greater part of the accommodation in existing mental hospi-
tals is occupied by incurable patients, and the only important advance made
in recent years has been the organisation of Psychiatric Clinics at medical
teaching institutions in Bombay, Bengal and United Provinces. Funds are
not available anywhere to provide adequate accommodation for mental
patients in India, but wherever possible psychiatric clinics should be opened
at the
l a r g e r h o s p i t a l s . S u c h c l i n i c s d e a l e s p e c i a l l y w i t h t h e e a r l y c u r a b l e
cases and when combined with a Neurology clinic often produce the
confidence which attracts patients. Indian medical practitioners are becoming
increasingly interested in this branch of medicine and specialists who have
taken European training are practising in larger centres.
13. MEDICAL INSPECTION OF SCHOOL CHILDREN.
A regular system of medical inspection of school children is in force in
all provinces, except Madras, Bombay and Sind. The system of medical
examination of college students prevails only in Bengal and Bihar while at
the Bombay University it is confined to students of Intermediate classes.
In Baluchistan the system has not been regularised, but doctors visit
schools occasionally, while in the United Provinces, Punjab, Bihar, Orissa
and North-West Frontier Province it has developed to a considerable extent.
2. There are 13 whole-time and 55 part-time inspectors in the United
Provinces, 15 whole-time and 92 part-time medical officers in the Punjab,
4 whole-time school medical officers assisted by 4 sub-assistant surgeons
and one lady Doctor for girls schools in Bihar, 2 medical officers in
Orissa and 4 whole-time and 9 part-time inspectors in the North-West
Frontier Province. In Calcutta there are 3 part-time medical officers. In