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MENTALLY DEFECTIVE CHILDREN.
Feeble-Minded Children.
Mentally Defective children are children who, not being imbecile and not being merely
dull or backward, are incapable by reason of mental defect 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 fro m instruction in Special Schools for mentally defective children.
This category includes only those children for whose education and maintenance the
Local Education Authority are responsible, and excludes all children who have been notified
to the Local Authority under the Mental Deficiency Act.
At Certified At At At
Schools for Public Private no School or Institution. Total.
Mentally Elementary Schools.
Defective Schools.
Children.
115 25 4 1 145

PHYSICALLY DEFECTIVE CHILDREN.
Physically Defective children are children who, by reason of physical defect, are
"capable of receiving proper benefit from the instruction in the ordinary Public Elementary
ools, but are not incapable by reason of that defect of receiving benefit from instruction
special Schools for physically defective children.
A. Tuberculous Children.
in this category are 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 are recorded as
a cripplied 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 are recorded as delicate children.