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Hornsey 1931
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hornsey, Borough of]
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TABLE III. (
| Boys. | Girls. | Total. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Physically Defective (continued). (Set note i). | Children with heart disease, i.e., children whose defect is so severe as to necessitate the provision of educational facilities other than those of the public elementary school. | 78 | At Certified Hospital Schools | 1 | 1 | |
| 79 | At Certified Residential Cripple Schools | |||||
| 80 | At Certified Day Cripple Schools | |||||
| 81 | At Certified Residential Open Air Schools | |||||
| 82 | At Certified Day Open Air Schools | |||||
| 83 | At Public Elementary Schools (see note c) | |||||
| 84 | At other Institutions | |||||
| 85 | At no School or Institution | 1 | 1 | |||
NOTES ON TABLE III.
(a) This Table should include all children in the area for whom the
Local Education Authority are responsible and who (except in the case of
children suffering from epilepsy which is not severe and certain classes of
tuberculous and crippled children) have been ascertained to be blind, deaf,
defective, or epileptic within the meaning of Part V. of the Education Act.
1921. It is the statutory duty of every Local Education Authority formally
to ascertain all defective children in their area irrespective of the actual
provision now made for their instruction in Special Schools. It is assumed
that every Authority will have a complete list of such children compiled
from returns made continuously during the year and kept constantly up to
date. In order to secure uniformity. Authorities are requested to make up
this Table from their list of defective children as it stands on the last day
of each calendar year.
Children who are living in residential schools in the area but who come
from other areas, should not be included in this Table; but children should
be included who are living in residential schools outside the area and who
are being maintained there by the Authority.
For the purpose of this Table, no child should be included whose defect
has not been ascertained by the School Medical Officer or a medical member
of the Authority's staff. In areas other than Counties or County Boroughs
children ascertained by the Tuberculosis Officer of the County should be
included.
The definitions of defective children as given in the Act are as follows
and must be very carefully borne in mind.
A blind child is a child who is too blind to be able to read the ordinary
school books used by children.
A deaf child is a child who is too deaf to be taught in a class of
hearing children in an elementary school.
Mentally and Physically Defective children are children who, not being
imbecile and not being merely dull and backward, are defective, that is to
say, children who by reason of mental or physical defect are incapable of
receiving proper benefit from the instruction in the ordinary public
elementary schools, but are not incapable by reason of that defect of receiving
benefit from instruction in such special classes or schools as under
Part V. of the Act may be provided for defective children.