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SPECIAL SCHOOLS
Brookfield House School for Physically Handicapped Children
At the end of I 972 the medical classification of the 76 children on the roll was as follows:
Congenital Deformities 6
Cerebral Palsy 25
Cardiac Disabilities 7
Muscular Dystrophy I
Haemophilia 2
Perthes Disease 4
Spina Bifida 3
Asthma 6
Fragilitas Ossium 4
Osteomyelitis 2
Still's disease 2
Poliomyelitis 2
Epilepsy 2
Amytonia congenita 2
Miscellaneous 8
Jospeh Clarke School for Partially Sighted Children
The ophthalmic condition on admission of the 88 children who attended the school during
1972 were as follows:-
Albinism 8
Aniridia 8
Cataracts 22
Anterior Synechia 1
Detached Retina 1
Dislocation of the Lenses 2
High Myopia 8
Iridocyclitis 3
Microphthalmos 2
Nystagmus 12
Optic Atrophy 10
Retinal Degeneration 1
Retinoblastoma 1
Damage to visual cortex 1
Coloboma 2
Macular degeneration 1
Optic nerve glioma 1
Glaucoma 1
Retinitis pigmentosa 2
Retrolental fibroplasia 1
William Morris School for the Deaf
Of the 87 children on the roll at the end of the year 72 were classified as deaf and 15 as
having partial hearing.
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