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Waltham Forest 1973
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Waltham Forest]
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SPECIAL SCHOOLS
Brookfield House School for Physically Handicapped Children
At the end of 1973 the medical classification of the 70 children on the roll was as follows:-
Congenital Deformities 4
Cerebral Palsy 20
Cardiac Disabilities 8
Muscular Dystrophy 1
Perthes Disease 4
Spina Bifida 7
Asthma6
Fragiltras Ossium 4
Osteomyelitis 1
Still's Disease2
Poliomyelitis
Epilepsy 2
Brailsford Morquio Syndrome1
Miscellaneous 9
Joseph Clarke School for Partially Sighted Children
The ophthalmic condition on admission of the 96 children who attended the school during
1973 were as follows:-
Albinism 9
Aniridia 9
Cataracts 22
Anterior Synechia
Detached Retina 3
Disclocation of the Lenses 3
High Myopia 10
Iridocyclitis 2
Microphthalmos
Nystagmus 11
Optic Atrophy 10
Retinal Degeneration 2
Retinoblastoma
Damage to visual cortex 1
Coloboma 2
Macular degeneration 1
Optic nerve glioma
Glaucoma 1
Retinitis pigmentosa 2
Retrolental fibroplasia 2
Batten's disease 1
Cone disfunction syndrome 1
William Morris School for the Deaf
Of the 84 children on the roll at the end of the year 72 were classified as deaf and 12 as
having partial hearing.
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