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In table (ii) the pupils taken off the rolls are grouped into three main categories:
(a) special education completed
(b) special education continuing elsewhere
(c) special education neither completed nor known to be continuing.
The table shows that over 90 per cent. of the pupils come into the first two of these
groups, over 60 per cent. having completed their special educational treatment. More
than half of those continuing their special education elsewhere were transfers to other
day schools for the delicate. This figure is higher than it would have been had the survey
taken place at another time, because during 1958 there were changes in catchment areas
consequent upon reorganisations following the opening of John Keats school.
Table (ii) records two deaths, both of boys. The particulars are as follows:
(i) boy aged 10 years, who had been in the school for three years, suffering from coeliac
disease.
(ii) boy aged 6 years, who had been in the school for four months, suffering from
fibrocystic disease of the pancreas,

In the following tables the list of diagnoses has been abbreviated.
Table (iii) shows that there is no general age of admission for any of the conditions
listed, on the contrary children are admitted at all ages, whatever the medical reasons for
their admission, even as late as their final year at school.