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(b) Delicate Children.—This Section is confined to children (except those included in other
groups) whose general health renders it desirable that they should be specially selected for admission
to an Open Air School. Such children are included irrespective of the actual provision of Open Air
Schools in the area, or of the practicability in present circumstances of sending the children to
Residential Schools. At the same time children are not regarded as suitable for admission to an Open
Air School unless the Medical Officer certifies 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.
At Certified Special Schools 82
At Public Elementary Schools 387*
At other Institutions —
At no School or Institution —
Total 469
*Total number of children referred during the year for convalescent treatment.
(c) Crippled Children.—This Section is confined to children (other than those diagnosed
as tuberculosis and in need of treatment for that disease) who are suffering from a degree of crippling
sufficiently severe to interfere materially with a child's normal mode of life, i.e., children who generally
speaking are unable to take part, in any complete sense, in physical exercises or games or such activities
of the school curriculum as gardening or forms of handwork usually engaged in by other children, and
in whose case the Medical Officer is prepared to certify under Section 55 of the Education Act, 1921,
that they are incapable by reason of such physical defect of receiving proper benefit from the instruction
in the ordinary Public Elementary Schools.
At Certified Special Schools 68
At Public Elementary Schools
At other Institutions —
At no School or Institution
Total 68
(d) Children with Heart Disease.—This Section is confined to children in whose case the Medical
Officer is prepared to certify, under Section 55 of the Education Act, 1921, that they are incapable
by reason of such physical defect of receiving proper benefit from the instruction in the ordinary
Public Elementary Schools.
At Certified Special Schools 46
At Public Elementary Schools —
At other Institutions —
At no School or Institution —
Total 46
Children suffering from Multiple Defects.—Information is only given in respect of
children suffering from any combination of the following types of defect:—
Blindness (excluding partially sighted children). Active Tuberculosis.
Deafness (excluding partially Deaf children). Crippling (as defined in Section C
Mental Defect (Feeble-minded). above).
Severe Epilepsy. Heart Disease.
The clinical condition causing the defect is not to be specified.