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CHILDREN SUFFERING FROM MULTIPLE DEFECTS.
Combination of
Defect.
At
Certified
Special
Schools.
At
Public
Elementary
Schools.
At
other
Institutions.
At no
School
or Institution.
Total.
Heart and Epileptic
-
-
-
1
1
Heart and Deaf
1
—
-
—
1
Crippled and Deaf
1
—
-
1
2
Tuberculosis and Feebleminded
1
-
-
-
1
Table III.—Continued.
Statement of the Number of Children Notified during the Year ended
31st December, 1938, by the Local Education Authority to the Local
Mental Deficiency Authority.
Total number of children notified, 13.
Analysis of the Above Total.
Diagnosis.
Boys.
Girls.
(1) (i) Children incapable of receiving benefit or farther
benefit from instruction in a Special School:—
(a) Idiots
1
—
(b) Imbeciles
—
1
(c) Others
6
2
(ii) Children unable to be instructed in a Special School
without detriment to the interests of other
children:—
(a) Moral Defectives
—
—
(b) Others
—
—
(2) Feeble-minded children notified on leaving a Special
School on or before attaining the age of 16
2
1
(3) Feeble-minded children notified under Article 5 of
the 1914 Regulations or under Article 3 of the 1928
Regulations, i.e., "special circumstances" cases
-
-
(4) Children who, in addition to being mentally defective,
were blind or deaf
-
-
Grand Total
9
4
In addition, 2 boys and 2 girls under seven years of age, who
came under our notice, have been intimated, at his request,
to the Officer under the Mental Deficiency Act.