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The School Medical Office,
Town Hall, Lower Edmonton,
1st May, 1914.
To the Chairman and Members
of the Education Committee.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
The three documents I propose to deal with are: —
1. The Mental Deficiency (notification of children) Regulations, 1914,
under section 2 (2) of the Mental Deficiency Act, 1914, dated 24th March, 1914;
2. Model Arrangements under section 1 (1) of the Elementary Education
(defective and epileptic children) Act, 1899, and section 31 (1) of the Mental
Deficiency Act, 1913, undated;
3. Memorandum relating to both of the foregoing, dated 30th March, 1914.
ELEMENTARY EDUCATION (DEFECTIVE
AND EPILEPTIC CHILDREN) ACT, 1899.
Previous to the coming in force of the Mental Deficiency Act of 1913, on
April 1st, 1914, the powers of a Local Education Authority in dealing with these
cases have been governed by the above Act.
This Act provides :—
Section 1.—That the Education Authority may (with the approval of the
Education Department*) make such arrangements as they think fit for ascertaining
what children in their district are mentally defective. If they make
such arrangements, they must provide facilities for enabling a parent, who is of
opinion that his child ought to be dealt with under the Act, to present his child
for examination, or any parent may be required by the school authoritiy to
present his child for examination.
Section 2.—Where a school authority have ascertained that there are in
their district defective children, they may make provision for their education by
all or any of the following means :—
(a) by classes in public elementary schools certified by the Education
Department as special classes;
* The Education Department is now "The Board of Education."