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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 Schoolsf —
At other Institutions 6
At no School or Institution —
Total 6
(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 6
At Public Elementary Schools † —
At other Institutions 1
At no School or Institution 1
Total 8
† 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.
(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 77
At Public Elementary Schools 302*
At other Institutions —
At no School or Institution —
Total 379
* 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 58
At Public Elementary Schools —
At other Institutions 1
At no School or Institution —
Total 59
(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 49
At Public Elementary Schools —
At other Institutions 1
At no School or Institution —
Total 50