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BLIND, DEAF, EPILEPTIC AND PHYSICALLY
DEFECTIVE CHILDREN.
The register of physically defective children has been revised
and so far as possible brought up to date during the year, and the
particulars set out in Table III. at the end of this report represent
the total numbers of such children known to the department,
whether in attendance at school or otherwise. It will be seen that
the numbers are as follows: —
Blind 11*
Deaf 12*
Mentally defective (and still under care of Education
Committee) 119
Epileptic—severe grade 11
slighter grade 12
Physically defective—
Infectious pulmonary and glandular tuberculosis 6
Non-infectious, but active glandular tuberculosis
92
Active non-pulmonary tuberculosis 16
Delicate (pre-tubercular, anæmia, etc.) 185
Crippled (other than tuberculosis) 112
(*i.e., blind and deaf in regard to capacity for education in
an ordinary school).
Table III. in the Appendix indicates the extent to which suitable
educational provision has been made for these children. Since
the compilation of the Table, which applies only to 1924, a school
for physically defective children has been opened, to receive in
particular crippled children for whom the ordinary school is not
suited.
MENTALLY DEFECTIVE CHILDREN.
It will be seen from Table III. at the end of the report that
there are 119 mentally defective children of school age in the
Borough known to the school medical department as capable of
some degree of education in a special school.
Of these, 86 were on the roll of the Grangewood Special
School at the end of December, 1924. 22 new children were
admitted to the school during the year, to replace 30 who left the
school during the same period. The reasons for discharge from
the school were as follows: —
Over school age 8
Removed from Borough 2