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both as regards treatment and, especially in the case of children
of school age, as regards education.
It appears to be in the latter connection, the important question
of education, that the difficulty originates.
The Sanatorium School is available for the treatment and
education of children suffering from tuberculosis until the disease
is arrested. But for the subsequent years, pending denotification,
the patient of school age is, in many instances, simply " marking
time " in regard to education and consequent future welfare.
A small number of these children are considered fit to attend
the Ordinary Elementary School, but in many cases this course
cannot be pursued owing to the danger of relapse from even slight
injury or undue strain.
On the other hand, the Local Education Authority is unable to
deal with these children, in the first place because they have no
power to incur expenditure in regard to notified cases of tuberculosis
and, in the second place, because the Governing Authorities
of the recognised schools for Physically Defective Children will not
accept such cases.
Mentally Defective Children.

A reference to Table III will show that out of 96 children
who have been certified as mentally defective but educable in a
special school, 4 (4 in 1928) are having no education, and 92
have been satisfactorily placed.