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the previous year. The following table shows the number of children nominated for
examination and the recommendations made:—
Defect.
Number
nominated.
Suitable for admission to
Returned to
elementary
school.
Invalided.
Notified
under
M.D. Act.
Blind
School.
Myope
class.
Swanley.
B.G. B. G. B. G. B. G. B. G. B. G. B. G.
Vision 48l 561 15 18 110 152 62 70 260 292 34 29 -
Deaf school. Hard of hearing class.
B. G. B. G.
Hearing 342 356 36 32 57 78 242 238 7 8 — —
P.D. school Open-air school B. G. B. G. P.D 737 796 530 553 13 11 108 137 86 95 — —
M.D. school. B. G.
M.D 1,221 895 481 346 632 473 43 44 55* 32*
Epileptic colony. B. G. Epileptic 65 63 29 13 | 13 23 23 27 — —
Total 2,846 2,671 1,333 1,273 1,255 1,163 203 203 55 32
5,517 2,606 2,418 406 87
*Of these 46 boys and 22 girls were imbecile; 7 boys and girls were idiots; and 2 boys and 3 girls were
feeble-minded.
Examinations were also conducted in 118 cases with a view to ascertaining
the fitness of the children for education in industrial or reformatory schools.
The special schools were visited at least once a quarter and every child present
was seen at least once during the year, the total examinations amounting to 19,491;
in addition 741 special examinations were made of children already on the rolls of
special schools in connection with applications for non-enforcement of attendance
at special schools, and similar reasons. As a result of the visits and re-examinations
the following re-classification took place: 232 returned on improvement to elementary
schools; 19 from schools for the hard-of-hearing and 1 from a school for the blind,
to schools for the deaf; 3 from schools for the mentally defective, 1 from a school
for the physically defective, and 1 from a school for the deaf, to schools for the
hard-of-hearing; 3 from schools for the myopic to schools for the blind; 3 from the
schools for the physically defective and 4 from schools for the blind, to schoolsfor
the myopic; 18 from schools for the physically defective, 1 from a school for the
hard-of-hearing and 4 from schools for the partially blind to schools for the mentally
defective; 2 from schools for the myopic to schools for the physically defective;
59 excluded as imbecile; 72 invalided on medical grounds; and 537 over 14 years of
age deemed to be no longer certifiable.
Rota visits
to the
schools.
The following statement shows the nature of the conditions found among the
children certified as suitable for admission to physically defective schools at the
admission examinations during the year:—
Morbid condition.
Boys.
Girls.
Total.
Morbid condition.
Boys.
Girls.
Total.
Infantile paralysis
62
44
106
Heart disease—
Congenital
20
29
49
Cerebral paralysis
6
12
18
Various paralyses
34
29
63
Acquired valvular
121
183
304
Tuberculosis of bones and
joints
144
111
255
Acquired non-valvular
8
15
23
Other diseases
47
43
90
Congenital deformities
28
32
60
Other deformities
60
55
115
530
553
1,083
Conditions
found at
admission
examinations.