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TABLE III.—continued.
PHYSICALLY DEFECTIVE CHILDREN.
A. TUBERCULOUS CHILDREN.
Tuberculous children in areas other than Counties or County
Boroughs who have been ascertained by the County Tuberculosis Officer
should not appear in the Table for the County but in the Table for
the appropriate area.
Only children diagnosed as tuberculous and requiring treatment for
tuberculosis at a sanatorium, a dispensary, or elsewhere should be
recorded in this category. Children suffering from crippling due to
tuberculosis which is regarded as being no longer in need of treatment
should be recorded as crippled children, provided that the degree of
crippling conforms to the description of a crippled child given at the
head of Section C below. All other tuberculous children who are
regarded as being no longer in need of treatment should be recorded as
delicate children provided the Medical Officer is prepared to certify under
Section 55 of the Education Act, 1921, that they are incapable by reason
of physical defect of receiving proper benefit from the instruction in
the ordinary Public Elementary Schools.

†It is essential that tuberculous children who are, or may be, a source
of infection to others should be promptly excluded from Public
Elementary Schools.