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Group 6.—Uncleanliness and Verminous Conditions.
(1) Average number of visits per School made during the year by
the School Nurses 3
(2) Total number of examinations of children in the Schools by
School Nurses 43,372
(3) Number of individual children found unclean 1,200
(4) Number of children cleansed under arrangements made by the
Local Education Authority —
(5) Number of cases in which legal proceedings were taken:—
(a) Under the Education Act, 1921 —
(b) Under School Attendance Byelaws 18
MENTAL DEFICIENCY (NOTIFICATION OF CHILDREN)
REGULATIONS, 1928.
CHILDREN NOTIFIED DURING THE YEAR ENDED
31st DECEMBER, 1938, TO THE
LOCAL MENTAL DEFICIENCY AUTHORITY.
Total Number of Children Notified 7
ANALYSIS OF THE ABOVE TOTAL.
Diagnosis.
Boys.
Girls.
1. (i) Children incapable of receiving benefit or further benefit
from instruction in a Special School :
(a) Idiots
2
—
(b) Imbeciles
2
3
(c) Others
—
—
(ii) Children unable to be instructed in a Special School
without detriment to the interests of other children :
(a) Moral defectives
—
—
(b) Others
—
—
2. Feeble-minded children notified on leaving a Special School
on or before attaining the age of 16
—
—
3. Feeble-minded children notified under Article 3, i.e.,
" special circumstances " cases
—
—
4. Children who in addition to being mentally defective were
blind or deaf
—
—
Grand Total
4
3