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age of seven years within their area are imbeciles, and
under Section 2 (2) to notify such children to the Middlesex
County Council.
Paragraph 8 of Circular 829, herewith enclosed, also
suggests that the Education Committee should furnish the
Middlesex County Council with information as to children
under the age of seven years who appear to be imbeciles.
Feeble-minded—i.e., a child in whose case there exists
from birth or from an early age mental defectiveness
not amounting to imbecility, yet so pronounced that
he, by reason of such defectiveness, appears to be
permanently incapable of receiving proper benetrt
from the instruction in ordinary schools. [Mental
Deficiency Act, 1913. Section 1 (c).]
This class of child may be sub-divided into
(a) the ineducable,
(b) the educable.
(a) The ineducable. The Education Committee are
quired under Section 31 (1) of the Mental Deficiency
Act, 1913, to ascertain what children over the age
of seven years are ineducable feeble-minded, and
under Section 2 (2) to notify such children to the
Middlesex County Council.
Paragraph 8 of Circular 829, herewith enclosed, also
suggests that the Education Committee should furnish the
Middlesex County Council with information as to children
under the age of seven years who appear to be of this class.
Paragraph 3 of Circular 829 suggests that before any
child is notified as ineducable it should be given a trial in
a special school, preferably a residential school.
(b) The educable.—The Education Committee are
quired under Section 31 (1) of the Mental Deficiency
Act, 1913, to ascertain what children over the age