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Table No. 32.—Corresponding to Table III. of the Board of Education's Medical
Statistical Tables.
Return of 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.
Blind Children.—A blind child is defined by Section 69 of the Education Act, 1921, as one who
is " too blind to be able to read the ordinary school books used by children." This definition covers
some children who are totally, or almost totally, blind and can only be appropriately taught in a school
for blind children, and others who have partial sight and can be appropriately taught in a school for
partially sighted children. Only the first class are included in this section.
At Certified Schools for the Blind 3
At Public Elementary Schools —
At other Institutions—
At no School or Institution—
Total 3
Partially Sighted 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 sighted.
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 6
At Certified Schools for the Partially Sighted 7
At Public Elementary Schools —
At other Institutions
At no School or Institution —
Total 13
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 class for
partially deaf children. Only the first type are included in this section.
At Certified Schools for the Deaf 20
At Public Elementary Schools —
At other Institutions—
At no School or Institution—
Total 20
Partially Deaf Children.—Entered in this Section are children who can appropriately be
taught only in a class for the partially deaf.
At Certified Schools for the Deaf and Partially Deaf 5
At Public Elementary Schools—
At other Institutions—
At no School or Institution—
Total 5
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 33, 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 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 3
At Public Elementary Schools
At other Institutions—
At no School or Institution—
Total 3