Report of E. Nettleship on ophthalmia at the school in Hanwell.

  • Nettleship, Edward, 1845-1913.
Date:
1888
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    than our parochial estabhshments. I look, in fact, upon this condition as a matter of no great importance, as long as the sanitary conditions (I use the phrase in its widest sense) of the School are good, and provided that any suspicious eye-cases be at once separated and treated. A very different significance, however, attaches to the existence of decided cases of granular lids, which always and urgently call for isolation and treatment; and the touch- stone of the Ophthalmic condition of a School lies, I believe, in the number of such cases which one finds. SCHOOLING OF ISOLATED CHILDREN. The scheme (which came into operation on March i6thof this year), under which the isolated children are in school for 23 hours a week, and out walking beyond the precincts of the building every day for two hours, is proving a success. By treatment, these children can, as I have shown, be kept tolerably free from relapses, which means that their schooling can be maintained. Educationally speaking, this, of course, is a matter of the first importance. It would, indeed, be lamentable if during the progress of such an essentially chronic disease as the one discussed, the education of its victims were allow^ed to suffer. In our Isolation School, supplied by the liberality of your Board with an ample staff of teachers, there is no fear of this now happening. THE FUTURE. A word as to the future. There can be no doubt that the isolated cases will diminish in number, though no progress can, of course, be expected in this direction until such time as the alterations in the main school building are completed. Then, I shal], I hope, be able materially to reduce the number of