Report on ophthalmia in the metropolitan pauper schools / by Edward Nettleship.

  • Nettleship, Edward, 1845-1913.
Date:
1875
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    The folio-wing facts bearing on the accommodation and management of the schools are of importance in Deference to this disease. Many others of equal importance are recorded in Mr. Courtenay's Report and need not be repeated. 1. The youngest age at which the children are admitted :— Sutton. 3 years. It was 4 years until about July 1873, the date of opening of the new block. Hanwell. 3 years. Forest Gate. 2 years. Islington. 3 years. Mile End. 2 years. There are several who can barely walk. Brentwood. 2 years. Asiiford. 2 years. Southall. 9 months since November 1870 ; till then it had been 2 years. Anekley. 3 years. Leavesden. 2 years. Battersea. Uncertain. There were no children younger than 4 at date of my visit. Norwood. No strict regulation. Sometimes as young as 12 months ; none under 2 years for the last year and a half. Mitcham. 2 years. Plashet. 15 months. Lettonstone. 2 years. Edmonton. 2 years. Probation.—Some changes have been made in this since the date of Mr. Courte- nay's Report. Sutton. 2 weeks; recently begun. Admissions once a week. Hanwell. 2 weeks. Admissions once a week. Eorest Gate. 1 month. Islington. No formal quarantine. Medical Officer has power to send contagious cases direct from Workhouse to School-Infirmary. Mile End. 1 week, in the infirmary ; no separate building. Brentwood. None. Asheord. 10 days when possible ; admissions sometimes occur too rapidly to allow so much. Southall. None, nor is there any at the Workhouse. Anerley. 2 weeks. Admissions once a week since May 1874. Leavesden. 2 weeks for several months past. Admissions nominally once a fortnight but lately oftener. ' Battersea. 1 week in a new building for the purpose; formerly part of the infir- mary was used. Norwood. None for the last 12 months since quarantine has been carried out at the Workhouse. The Probation Wards (built 1869) are at present used for infir- mary patients. Mitciiam. 1 or 2 days, except for the infants admitted with healthy eyes; these for a year or more have been kept permanently separate. Plasiiet. A few hours; longer only in very exceptional cases. Lettonstone. 2 weeks. Edmonton. 1 week. Infant department:— Sutton. Separate building. Infants are sub-divided into two departments. There is a separate building, ( nursery,) for the youngest, but just now it is being used temporarily for ophthalmic cases. Hanwell. No separate building. Accommodation for infants very bad. Forest Gate. Many are kept a long time in the Probation Ward. No sepa- rate building in the school, and the infants there are in some respects verv birll J accommodated. J uauiy Islinoton. No separate building, but the accommodation and mauan-emont nf the infants are on the whole very good, 8«mvim 01