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Special measures have already been adopted for the care
and teaching of backward and mentally defective children.
Although on the Continent and in America, for some years,
the regular medical inspection of the public schools has been
in force, in England the subject has only lately received serious
attention, and comparatively few districts have adopted
it; but the movement in its favour is rapidly growing
and soon will no doubt be general. If it is acknowledged to
be necessary, the attendant expense should not stand in the
way of its adoption.