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SPECIAL SCHOOLS.
SUNTRAP RESIDENTIAL OPEN AIR SCHOOL, HAVING ISLAND.
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This school now provides accommodation for 120 boys and
girls from 5 to 16 years of age. Pupils are received both from
Tottenham and other districts. Since the re.construction of the
buildings in 1937, when large airy:,dormitories and a new hospital
block were built, and day rooms, school rooms and administrative
quarters were extended and modernised, the school has become
an eminently suitable medium, for the treatment of children
suffering from many Varieties of ill.health. The minium
time of residence is six weeks and the duration of stay is
determined in each instance by the visiting medical officer and
may be prolonged to several months, During the summer months
the accommodation at the school is occupied to its full capacity,
but difficulty is experienced in obtaining consent for the admissior
of children during the winter season. This is to be deplored,
since'.the climatic conditions obtaining on this part cf the
coast during the autumn and winter are particularly beneficial
to patients suffering from respiratory affections, debility, and
malnutrion.
The School for the Deaf, Vale Road School for Physically
Defective Children and Oak Lodge School for Mentally Defective
Children, have been dealt with in an arlier section of the
report.
Lordship Lane Partially.Sighted School.
As in previous years.Torrenhem pupils., have attended this
school, which Is in.the'Administrative district of Wood,Green
Vale Road Nursery School .
The entire teaching staff and pupils, together with domestic
staff and helpers were. evacuated to Elveden Hall, Suffolk, on the
outbreak of war and a school nurse accompanied the party,
Unfortunately Scarlet Fever broke out two days after evacuation
and the epidemic which was of a mild..nature .;Was of short
duration. Uncomplicated cases were at first nursed by three
members of the Tottenham school nursing and Maternity and Child
Welfare Staffs in an isolated portion of the premises, but
during the latter weeks Of the epidemic all patients were removed
to hospital.
The Nursery Classes at Lancasterian Infants' School were
.continued. as in and during the structural•alterations at this
school additional classrooms and bathrooms were cobstructed for
the use of these classes.
Alterations, and additions at a number of other .schools have
included the provision of nursery.class accommodation.