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MEDICAL INSPECTION RETURNS.
Year ended 31st December, 1938.
TABLE III.
RETURN OF EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN IN THE AREA.
The returns on this Form can be of value only if they are made as
closely as possible in accordance with the directions printed at the
head of each category. Particular attention is called to the directions
in the categories of Physically Defective Children.
It is assumed that every Authority will have a complete list of
exceptional children in their own area compiled from returns made
continuously during the year and kept constantly up to date.
For the purpose of this Table no child should be included who has
not been examined by the School Medical Officer, by a medical member
of the staff of a Local Education Authority, or by a Tuberculosis Officer.
The returns should not be confined only to children for whom suitable
accommodation is available.
Children whose homes are in the Authority's area but who attend
day or residential schools outside the area should be included in this
Table; children who are living in residential schools in the area, or
attend day schools in the area, but who come from other areas, should
not be included.
In order to secure uniformity, Authorities are requested to make
up this Table from their list of exceptional children as it stands on
the last day of the calendar year.
No child should be entered under more than one heading in this Form.