[Report 1955] / School Medical Officer of Health, Isle of Man.

  • Isle of Man. Council.
Date:
1955
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Credit: [Report 1955] / School Medical Officer of Health, Isle of Man. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the future and it may also be necessary to admit five children with advanced myopia to special classes. Three pre-school children are classed as partially sighted. Epileptics Seven children are known to be under treatment for epilepsy and all are fit to attend ordinary schools at present. One child aged five is not yet fit to attend school. Deaf Children. A girl aged 16 and a boy of 14 years are pupils at the Royal Residential Schools for the Deaf in Manchester. One pre-school child has been recommended for admission to a special school. Partially Deaf Children. One girl is resident at the Liverpool School for the Partially Deaf at Birkdale. Seven children attending ordinary schools are classed as partially deaf. Two of these children have hearing aids. Educationally Sub-Nonna! Children. 14 children are classified as ineducable. They have marked mental defects, are unfit to attend ordinary schools and would benefit from training at an Occupation Centre. There are five pre-school children in the same category. 32 pupils at ordinary schools or special classes have varying degrees of mental defects. 16 of these children are more suited to an Occupation Centre. Two boys are resident at Special Schools. Two special classes continued to function as in previous years. The special class at Albert Road School would be of more value if it were held every day instead of two half-davs a week. Pupils for the Demesne Road special class should be admitted as soon as they are eight in order to obtain the full benefit from the special tuition. Physically Handicapped Children. ii physically handicapped children were unfit to attend school in 1955. Two had spastic paralysis, two, congenital spinal conditions; one, paralysis following poliomyelitis one, pulmonary tuberculosis; one, T.B. meningitis; one, chorea and two children were in-patients in the Orthopaedic Ward at Noble’s Hospital. Three of these children were able to re-attend school commencing with half-days only in the later part of the year. One child who was suffering from congenital heart disease died during the year. Five children were in-patients in hospitals on the Mainland for the greater part of the year. Two were receiving treatment for orthopaedic defects, two for chest conditions and one for heart disease. 19 children, some of whom would be suitable for admission to special schools for physically handicapped children, are attending ordinary schools.
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