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Deaf Children.—A deaf child is defined by Section 69 of the Education Act, 1921, as one who
is " too deaf to be taught in a class of hearing children in an elementary school." This definition covers
some children who are totally, or almost totally, deaf and can only be appropriately taught in a school
for deaf children, and others who have partial hearing and can be appropriately taught in a school for
partially deaf children. Only the first class are included in this section.
At Certified Schools for the Deaf 16
At Public Elementary Schools —
At other Institutions —
At no School or Institution 1
Total 17
Partially Deaf Children.—Entered in this Section are children who can appropriately be
taught only in a school for the partially deaf.
At Certified Schools for the Deaf 3
At Certified Schools for the Partially Deaf 4
At Public Elementary Schools —
At other Institutions —
At no School or Institution —
Total 7
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.
The following Table includes all such children except those who have been notified to the Local
Authority under the Mental Deficiency Act in accordance with Article 3 of the Mental Deficiency
(Notification of Children) Regulations, 1928. Particulars relating to these children are entered in
Table 31, page 45.
At Certified Schools for Mentally Defective Children 87
At Public Elementary Schools —
At other Institutions 1
At no School or Institution —
Total 88
Epileptic Children.—Children suffering from Severe Epilepsy.—In this part of the Table
only those children should be 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 3
At Public Elementary Schools —
At other Institutions —
At no School or Institution 1
Total 4
Physically Defective Children.—(a) Tuberculous Children.—Tuberculous children in areas
other than Counties or County Boroughs who have been ascertained by the County Tuberculosis
Officer should not appear in the Table for the County but in the Table for the appropriate area.
Only children diagnosed as tuberculous and requiring treatment for tuberculosis at a sanatorium,
a dispensary, or elsewhere are recorded in this category. Children suffering from crippling due to
tuberculosis which is regarded as being no longer in need of treatment are recorded as crippled children,
provided that the degree of crippling conforms to the description of a crippled child given at the head
of section C below. All other tuberculous children who are regarded as being no longer in need of
treatment are recorded as delicate children provided the Medical Officer is prepared to certify under
Section 55 of the Education Act, 1921, that they are incapable by reason of physical defect of receiving
proper benefit from the instruction in the ordinary Public Elementary Schools.
(i.) Children suffering from Pulmonary Tuberculosis. (Including pleura and intra-thoracic
glands.)
At Certified Special Schools —
At Public Elementary Schools —
At other Institutions 2
At no School or Institution —
Total 2
(ii.) Children suffering from Non-pulmonary Tuberculosis. (This category includes
tuberculosis of all sites other than those shown in (i.) above.)
At Certified Special Schools 8
At Public Elementary Schools † —
At other Institutions 1
At no School or Institution —
Total 9
† It is essential that tuberculous children who are, or may be, a source of infection to others
should be promptly excluded from Public Elementary Schools.