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SPECIAL SCHOOLS
Brookfield House School for Physically Handicapped Children
At the end of 1969 the medical classification of the 72 children on the roll was as follows:-
Congenital Deformities 6
Cerebral Palsy 22
Cardiac Disabilities 5
Muscular Dystrophy 2
Haemophilia 4
Post Poliomyelitis 1
Delicate 1
Spina Bifida 3
Asthma/Asthma Eczema 12
Other Physical Handicaps 16
Joseph Clarke School for Partially Sighted Children
The ophthalmic conditions on admission of the 68 children who attended the school during
1969 were as follows:-
Albinism 4
Aniridia 7
Cataracts 24
Congenital Day Blindness 1
Detached Retina 1
Dislocation of the Lenses 3
High Myopia 6
Iridocyclitis 2
Microphthalmos 1
Nystagmus 7
Optic Atrophy 9
Retinal Degeneration 1
Retinoblastoma 1
Retrolental Fibroplasia 1
Their visual acuities (Snellen), after correction, were as follows:-
Visual acuity of less than 6/60 24
Visual acuity of 6/60 16
Visual acuity of 6/36 14
Visual acuity of 6/24 10
Visual acuity of 6/18 2
Not yet assessed because of age 2
William Morris School for the Deaf
Of the 62 children on the roll at the end of the year 39 were classified as deaf and 23 as
having partial hearing.
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