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TABLE VI.
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 17,923
(3) Number of individual children found unclean ... 775
(4) Number of children cleansed under arrangements
made by the Local Education Authority —
(5) Number of cases in which Legal proceedings were taken :—
(а) Under the Education Act, 1921 —
(b) Under the School Attendance Bye-laws —
STATEMENT OF THE NUMBER OF CHILDREN NOTIFIED DURING
THE YEAR ENDED 31st DECEMBER, 1939, BY THE LOCAL EDUCATION
AUTHORITY TO THE LOCAL MENTAL DEFICIENCY AUTHORITY.
Total number of children notified : 6.
Analysis of the above Total.
Diagnosis.
Boys.
Girls.
1. (i) Children incapable of receiving benefit or further
benefit from instruction in a Special School :
1
(6) Imbeciles
5
(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
5
6
3. Feeble-minded children notified under Article 3, i.e.,
"special circumstances" cases
Note.—No child should be notified under Article 3
until the Board have issued a formal
certificate (Form 308M) to the Authority.
—
—
4. Children who in addition to being mentally defective
were blind or deaf
Note.—No blind or deaf child should be notified
without reference to the Board—see Article
2, proviso (ii).
—
—
Gkand Total
10
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