§ Colonel DAYasked the President of the Board of Education whether it is his intention to make any and, if so, what arrangements for the care and education of children who are so mentally deficient and physically defective that they cannot be received in any of the existing special schools?
The PRESIDENTof the BOARD of EDUCATION (Lord Eustace Percy): As regards the mentally defective children in question, I would refer the hon. and gallant Member to Circular 1341, a copy of which I am sending him. As regards physically defective children, there are, generally speaking, no children who are suffering from so prolonged disability and who are so defective that they cannot be received into either the appropriate type of special school (including hospital schools) or into a sanatorium for children