§ Sir H. NIELDasked the President of the Board of Education whether he has received any communication with reference to the proposal of the Brentford Board of Guardians to engage the services of a nurse-teacher, who shall impart some approved form of elementary instruction to the large number of children who are inmates of the Board's hospital at Isleworth, often for periods 2133W of considerable length, suffering from various forms of tubercular affections of the limbs and from other maladies, who are wholly without elementary education, and not a few of whom are unable to read or write; and whether he can see his way to make a grant to the guardians for the purpose of this appointment being made, seeing that the Ministry of Health are unable to certify the institution, so as to enable them to make the necessary provision?
Mr. H. LEWISA communication with regard to this proposal was received by the Board in June last, and referred to the Ministry of Health as the Government Department concerned. The Board have no power to make grants to an institution for defective children which is not certified by them under the Elementary Education (Defective and Epileptic Children) Acts, 1899 to 1914.