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Home Visits
Home visits by health visitors and school nurses during the year
numbered 2,216.
Handicapped Pupils
54 special examinations were carried out during the year and recommendations
for special educational treatment were made in respect of 41
children as follows:-
TABLE 4
Category
Number
ascertained
Recommendation
Ordinary
School
with
Special
treatment
Day
Special
School
Boarding
Special
School
Home
Tuition
Blind
–
–
–
–
–
Partially sighted
2
–
2
–
–
Deaf
–
–
–
–
–
Partially deaf
1
–
1
–
–
Educationally sub-normal
20
6
11
3
–
Epileptic
–
–
–
–
–
Maladjusted
3
–
–
3
–
Physically handicapped ..
5
–
5
–
–
Suffering from speech defect
–
–
–
–
–
Delicate
10
–
4
6
–
Eleven children were found subject to be dealt with under the provisions
of section 57 the Education Act (from November 1st as amended by the
Mental Health Act of 1959) and were recommended for report to the Mental
Health Committee as follows:
Incapable of receiving education or unsuitable for education 6
Requiring supervision after leaving school 5
Lansbury School
At the routine medical inspections carried out during the year,
amongst the 71 childen seen the very high figure of 25 defects requiring
treatment, and 12 defects needing observation, were noted. In addition
as these children require a greater degree of medical surveillance than those
attending normal school, frequent visits were paid to the school to discuss
individual problems with the staff. I would like to thank Mr. North for his
co-operation and assistance in dealing with the many mental, physical,
emotional and social problems affecting the pupils at Lansbury School.
B.C.G. Vaccination and the Prevention of Tuberculosis
During 1960 a pupil attending one of the secondary schools was
admitted to hospital suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis. Contacts in her
school and those childen who had been in the same class in her previous
school were Heaf tested. All members of the staff of the schools concerned
were x-rayed at the Chest Clinic. All investigations proved negative and
no evidence of any other tuberculous infection was found.