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PHYSICALLY DEFECTIVE CHILDREN.
Physically Defective children are children who, by reason of 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 Special Schools for
physically defective children.
The exact classification of physically defective children is admittedly
a matter of difficulty. Valuable information, however, will be obtained
if School Medical Officers will record these defective children as accurately
as possible under the selected sub-headings.
A. TUBERCULOUS CHILDREN.
In this category should be placed only cases diagnosed as tuberculous
and requiring treatment for tuberculosis at a sanatorium, a dispensary,
or elsewhere. Children suffering from crippling due to tuberculosis which
is regarded as being no longer in need of treatment should be recorded
as crippled children, provided that the degree of crippling is such as
to interfere materially with a child's normal mode of life. All other
cases of tuberculosis regarded as being no longer in need of treatment
should be recorded as delicate children.

†It it essential that tuberculous children who are, or may be, a source of infection to others
should be promptly excluded from Public Elementary Schools.