Busses at Day School for Crippled Children, Buffalo City Hospital. Reproduced by permission of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library, Buffalo, New York. Day School for Crippled Children, Buffalo City Hospital, 1924. Ted Mack entertaining students from the Day School for Crippled Children at Shea’s Buffalo, 1921. Photo courtesy of the Buffalo History Museum, used by permission. Day School for Crippled Children, Buffalo City Hospital, 1924. Tubercular boys enjoying sun treatment on the roof of the Buffalo City Hospital, 1923. 22 A school especially designed for disabled children. The Day School for Crippled Children opened on the hospital grounds in the mid-1920s. The school was originally run cooperatively by City Hospital, the Department of Education, and the Health Department. Starting with one teacher and 12 pupils, within ten years it had grown to 15 teachers and 195 pupils. One of the students’ favorite features of the school was its warm water pool that helped the children more easily exercise their limbs since water lightens the pull of gravity. In 1971, a new $4 million School 84 for the physically handicapped opened on the hospital campus. The school included a physical therapy suite with exercise room, a treatment room, a swimming pool with special ramps, a speech therapy room, and a hydrotherapy room with whirlpool baths. Another room with a circular track in the ceiling enabled children to be fitted in a harness, suspended from the ceiling, and walk around on their own. Extra-wide doors were hung to accommodate wheelchairs. Today, School 84 Health Care Center for Children at ECMC is the designated school in the district for students with severe disabilities and illnesses and has 165 students in grades K-12. Programs are customized to meet each student’s individual needs and staff members from the Buffalo City School District and ECMC jointly provide all academic and therapeutic services. In 2016, the Physical Therapy Department at School 84 was awarded the “Outstanding Center for Physical Therapy 2015 Clinical Education Award” by the New York/New Jersey Physical Therapy Clinical Education Consortium. Buffalo City Hospital 1918-1939