[Report 1956] / School Medical Officer of Health, Peterborough.

  • Peterborough (England). Council.
Date:
1956
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Credit: [Report 1956] / School Medical Officer of Health, Peterborough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The needs of the educationally sub-normal girls have been, to a great extent, met by the opening of Orton Hall, near Peterborough, where there is accommodation for ioo girls (46 boarders and 54 day pupils). At the end of the year, 22 girls from the Soke of Peterborough were in attendance at Orton Hall, 21 as day pupils and one as a boarder. The following Table shows the number of handicapped pupils on the Register during the year 1956 : Blind or partially blind .... .... .... .... 4 Other visual defects .... .... .... .... 2 Deaf or partially deaf .... .... .... .... 9 Delicate .... .... .... .... .... .... 34 Epileptic . 14 Educationally sub-normal .... .... .... 140 Physically handicapped .... .... .... .... 85 Maladjusted . 8 Total 296 At the end of the year 1955, 312 children were on the Register. Special Schools One blind girl is being educated at the Barclay School for Partially- sighted girls at Sunninghill, Berks., and another girl (who is also partially deaf) is being educated at the Birmingham Royal Institution for the Blind. One boy was at the Royal Normal College during the year. One deaf boy is being educated at the Royal School for the Deaf, Derby. Two others (brothers) are at St. John’s Residential .School for the Deaf, Boston Spa, Yorks., and a fourth boy was at Donnington Lodge Nursery School, Newbury, Berks, during the year. One girl is being educated at the Yorkshire Residential School for the Deaf, Doncaster. A girl suffering from spastic paraplegia was at the Palace School, Ely, and another girl suffering from rheumatic chorea was at St. Patrick’s Open-air School, Hayling Island during the year. A diabetic boy was admitted to Shaftesbury House Hostel for Diabetic Children, Rustington on 23.5.56. Eight children suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis were resident at the Children’s Sanatorium, Kelling during 1956. Thirty-four delicate children were in residential open-air schools during the year, viz : Port Regis Open-air School, Broadstairs (girls) .... .... 10 Holy Cross Open-air School, Broadstairs (boys) .... .... 20 St. John’s Open-air School, Woodford Bridge .... .... 2 St. Patrick’s Open-air School, Hayling Island .... .... 2 Total 34 In the previous year 47 children were in open-air schools.