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Table No. 21.—Corresponding to Table III. of the Board of Education's Medical
Statistical Tables.
Return of all Exceptional Children in the Area.
This Table is compiled from the list of exceptional children as it stands on the last day of
the calendar year.
No child is entered under more than one heading.
Children Suffering from Multiple Defects.—Information is only given in respect of
children suffering from any combination of the following types of defect:—
Blindness (not Partial Blindness)
Deafness (not Partial Deafness).
Mental Defect.
Epilepsy.
Active Tuberculosis.
Crippling (as defined in the penultimate
category of the Table).
Heart Disease.
The actual combination of defects is stated below together with the type of school attended.
State here the number of children suffering from any
combination of the above defects 3
Of the 3 children suffering from multiple defects, 1 is in attendance at a certified school for
mentally defective children and suffers from infantile paralysis; 1 is in attendance at an epileptic
colony and is also mentally defective and 1 is in attendance at an epileptic colony and is a crippled
child, suffering from spastic hemiplegia.
Blind Children.—A blind child is a child who is too blind to be able to read the ordinary
school books used by children.

Partially Blind Children.—Entered in this Section are only children who, though they
cannot read ordinary school books or cannot read them without injury to their eyesight, have such
power of vision that they can appropriately be taught in a school for the partially blind.

Deaf Children.—A deaf child is a child who is too deaf to be taught in a class of hearing
children in an elementary school.