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SPECIAL SCHOOLS
Brookfield House School for Physically Handicapped Children
At the end of 1971 the medical classification of the 86 children on the roll was as follows:-
Congenital Deformities 7
Cerebral Palsy 23
Cardiac DisabiIities 6
Muscular Dystrophy 1
Haemophilia 4
Perthes Disease 5
Spina Bifida 2
Asthma 8
Other Physical Handicaps 23
Osteomyelitis 3
Osteogenesis Imperfecta 3
Poliomyelitis 1
Joseph Clarke School for Partially Sighted Children
The ophthalmic condition on admission of the 77 children who attended the school during
1971 were as follows:-
Albinism 6
Aniridia 7
Cataracts 25
Congenital Day Blindness 1
Detached Retina 1
Dislocation of the Lenses 2
High Myopia 6
Iridocyclitis 3
Microphthalmos 1
Nystagmus 9
Optic Atrophy 6
Retinal Degeneration 2
Retinoblastoma 1
Retrolental Fibroplasia 1
Coloboma 2
Macular degeneration 1
Retinitis pigmentosa 2
Glaucoma 1
William Morris School for the Deaf
Of the 97 children on the roll at the end of the year 77 were classified as deaf and 20 as
having partial hearing.
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