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It should be understood that 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, should not be
included in this Table.
(c) It should be understood that none of the children in this
Table (except children suffering from epilepsy which is not severe)
should in fact be attending public elementary schools. When the
heading is retained, it is merely because at present the insufficiency
of Special School accommodation makes it impossible to do better
for some defective children than to allow them to attend the
ordinary school. No space is left for the entry of children with
infectious pulmonary tuberculosis attending public elementary
schools, as these children should of course be promptly excluded
from such schools.
(d) Children who are deaf within the meaning of the Act
should be classified for the purpose of this Table as (1) totally
deaf or so deaf that they can only be appropriately taught in a
school or class for the totally deaf, and (2) partially deaf, i.e.,
those who can appropriately be taught in a school or class for the
partially deaf.
(e) This category includes only those children for whose
education and maintenance the Local Education Authority are
responsible, and who are not eligible for notification to the Local
Control Authority under the Mental Deficiency Act.
(/) In this part of the Table only those children should be
included who are epileptic within the meaning of the Act.
For practical purposes the Board are of opinion that children
who are subject to attacks ot major epilepsy in school should be
recorded as "severe" cases and excluded from ordinary public
elementary schools.
(g) In this part of the Table should be entered the remainder
of the epileptic children in the area, i.e., children whose disease
is of such a kind as not to unfit them for attendance at an ordinary
public elementary school.
(h) The exact classification of physically defective is admittedly
a matter of difficulty. Valuable information, however, will
be obtained if School Medical Officers will record these defective
children as accurately as possible under the selected sub-headings,
taking care that no child is entered under more than one subheading.