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Report of the County Medical Officer—Education. j 135
on the approved form to the Asylums and Mental Deficiency Committee, and the report of the head
teacher, and such other reports on the child as may have been obtained, shall be forwarded with the
notification.
(17) In any case falling under paragraphs 13 and 14 above, where the Education Committee,
notwithstanding the certificate of the certifying officer, are of opinion, after due inquiry, that the name
of the child should not be notified to the Asylums and Mental Deficiency Committee, or where, after due
inquiry, the Education Committee desire to notify a case which has not been certified under paragraphs
13 and 14, and does not come within the scope of paragraphs 15 and 16, or in cases of doubt, the case
shall be submitted to the Board of Education for determination whether the name should be notified.
In doubtful cases action may be delayed until the children have been under observation for a further
period, either in a day or residential school for the mentally defective.
(18) In any case where it is proposed to notify to the Asylums and Mental Deficiency Committee
under the Act the name of a child who is also blind or deaf within the meaning of section 15 (1) of the
Elementary Education (Blind and Deaf Children) Act, 1893, a copy of the report of the certifying officer
on the child (Form 306 M.), and, in the case of a child already in attendance at a special school for blind
or deaf children, a report of the head teacher of the school on the child's progress while in the school,
shall be forwarded to the Board of Education, and if after consideration of the report, or reports, the
Board so require, the Education Committee shall submit to the Board for determination the question
whether the name and address of the child should be notified.
(19) The managers of the schools for the mentally defective, to which the Council sends children,
shall report to the Education Committee cases of children sent to their schools for whom the Council
contributes, who, in the opinion of the managers and the medical officer of the school, are feeble-minded
within the meaning of section 1 of the Mental Deficiency Act, 1913, and who are also about to be withdrawn
or discharged from the school on or before attaining the age of 16 and in whose case it is considered
that it would be to their benefit that they should be sent to an institution or placed under guardianship
under the provisions of the Mental Deficiency Act. These reports should be submitted to the Education
Committee upon the child reaching the age of 15½ years, and action will be taken thereon by the Committee
similar to that set out in paragraph No. 16.
(20) Particulars of cases of defective children brought before a Court shall be laid before the Education
Committee, who, if they do not recommend to the Court that the children should be committed to
industrial schools for mentally defective children, may suggest that the cases should be referred to the
Asylums and Mental Deficiency Committee, in order that the necessary action may be taken under
section 8 of the Mental Deficiency Act, 1913.
(21) The managers of the industrial and reformatory schools with whom the Council has agreements
shall report to the Council cases of children sent to their schools, towards whose maintenance the
Council contributes, who, in the opinion of the managers and the medical officer of the school, are defective
within the meaning of the Mental Deficiency Act, 1913, and also which of such children are about to be
discharged, and need, in the opinion of the managers, owing to mental defect, further care and control.
In the case of the Council's industrial schools it shall be the duty of the managing committees to report
the cases of such children to the Education Committee.
(22) Particulars of the cases reported by the managers under paragraph 21 above shall be laid
before the Education Committee together with the observations of the parents and such reports as may
seem desirable, for their consideration as to whether the children should be transferred to industrial
schools for mentally defective children, or, in the case of children about to be discharged, whether the
Asylums and Mental Deficiency Committee shall be consulted with a view to steps being taken to apply
to the Secretary of State for an order for the transfer of the child to an institution, or for the child to
be placed under guardianship, in accordance with section 9 of the Mental Deficiency Act, 1913.
(23) So soon as the Asylums and Mental Deficiency Committee concur in the proposed application
for the transfer of a child to an institution, or for a child to be placed under guardianship, in accordance
with section 9 of the Act, the application shall, in the case of a child at one of the Council's industrial
schools, be made and, in the case of a child at a school with which the Council has an agreement, the
managers shall be asked to make the application. When an order has been issued by the Secretary of
State the parents or friends of the child shall be informed and steps taken to give effect to the order.