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Lordship Lane Partially Sighted School.
The following is a report received from the Head Teacher of this
School with respect to Tottenham children:—
Number on roll.— Sixteen children have attended during the year.
Of these 8 attended prior to 1936, 3 were re-admitted after periods
spent in hospitals and sanatoria, 3 were transferred (because of defective
vision) from elementary schools and 2 young children with poor sight
came at the ages of 4 and 5 years, not having attended school previously.
Two boys left during the year, one of whom is working in a bakehouse.
At the end of the year there were 14 children in attendance.
Reasons for attending.— Myopia chiefly, often with secondary defect,
and also hypermetropia, cataract, nystagmus, astigmatism, strabismus,
blepharitis, conjunctivitis, aphakia, corneal nebulae, coloboma of iris
(one case only). Trachoma was suspected in one case, that of a boy,
who was excluded from September to December. He was re-admitted
on the 18th January, 1937, on medical recommendation.
Because of this variety, and frequent multiple defects, it has been
found necessary to treat sections by differing educational and hygienic
methods:—
Myopes—Conservation of vision.
Cataracts, coloboma and certain hypermetropes—School work
within the scope of their defective vision.
Blepharitis, conjunctivitis—Special health treatment.
Health.—Health generally needs and receives special attention.
Out-door periods and lessons in the park are enjoyed. Simple "talks on
eye hygiene are given, besides the usual attention to teeth, hair, nails
and cleanliness generally. Milk is taken by most children once or twice
daily and increasing numbers are now taking the cooked dinner supplied.
Necessitous cases receive both free, but payment is accepted from such
as can afford it.
At the annual medical inspection each child is seen by Dr. Manson,
School Medical Officer, Wood Green. The parents attend well and are
glad to be advised. The children receive special treatment from the
Ophthalmic Surgeon at the Bruce Castle Clinic or attend privately at
Moorfields Hospital.