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Blind Children.—A blind child is a child who is too blind to be able to read the ordinary
school books used by children.
Entered in this Section are only children who are so blind that they can only be appropriately
taught in a school for blind children.
At Certified Schools for the Blind 2
At Public Elementary Schools —
At Other Institutions —
At no School or Institution -
Total 2
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.
Children who are able by means of suitable glasses to read the ordinary school books used by
children without fatigue or injury to their vision are not included in this Table.
At Certified Schools for the Blind 10
At Certified Schools for the Partially Blind 9
At Public Elementary Schools —
At other Institutions —
At no School or Institution —
Total 19
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.
Entered in this Section are only children who are so deaf that they can only be appropriately
taught in a school for the deaf.
At Certified Schools for the Deaf 18
At Public Elementary Schools —
At other Institutions
At no School or Institution —
Total 18
Partially Deaf Children.—Entered in this Section only are children who can appropriately
be taught in a school for the partially deaf.
At Certified Schools for the Deaf 3
At Certified Schools for the Partially Deaf 5
At Public Elementary Schools —
At other Institutions —
At no School or Institution —
Total 8
Mentally Defective Children.—Feeble-minded Children.—Mentally Defective children are
children who, not being imbecile and not being merely dull or backward, are incapable by reason
of mental defect of receiving proper benefit from the instruction in the ordinary Public Elementary
Schools but are not incapable by reason of that defect of receiving benefit from instruction in Special
Schools for mentally defective children.
This category includes only those children for whose education and maintenance the Local
Education Authority are responsible, and excludes all children who have been notified to the Local
Authority under the Mental Deficiency Act. Details of such children are given on page 45.
At Certified Schools for Mentally Defective Children 119
At Public Elementary Schools —
At other Institutions —
At no School or Institution —
Tota l119
Epileptic Children.—Children Suffering from Severe Epilepsy.—In this part of the Table
only those children are included who are epileptic within the meaning of the Act, i.e., children who,
not being idiots or imbeciles, are unfit by reason of severe epilepsy to attend the ordinary Public
Elementary Schools.
For practical purposes the Board of Education are of opinion that children who are subject
to attacks of major epilepsy in school should be recorded as " severe " cases and excluded from ordinary
Public Elementary Schools.
At Certified Special Schools 4
At Public Elementary Schools
At other Institutions —
At no School or Institution 1
Total 5