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Administrative Measures.
Abnormal Children—(A)—Mentally Abnormal, including—
(1) Idiot.
(2) Imbecile.
(3) Feeble-minded.
(4) Moral Imbecile.
(5) Dull or Backward.
(6) Epileptic.
(B) Physically Abnormal, including—
(7) Physically Defective.
(8) Blind.
(9) Deaf.
Children belonging or suspected as belonging to one or
other of the above groups as hereinbefore defined, should
be notified by Head Teachers in respect of children attending
school and by School Attendance Officers in respect of
children not in attendance at school, and whether under or
over seven years of age to the School Medical Officer on the
"Specially Referred" salmon coloured card.
The School Medical Officer shall have the children so
referred duly examined by one or other of the Approved
Certifying Officers.
The examination of children referred under (A) Mentally
Abnormal above will require to be reported in the
manner provided by the schedules printed on pp. 3, 4, 5 and
6 of the Model Arrangements published by the Board of
Education under Section I (1) of the Elementary Education
(Defective and Epileptic Children) Act, 1899, and Section
31 (1) of the Mental Deficiency Act, 1913.
The examination of children referred under (B), Physically
Abnormal Children, will be conducted on similar lines