Mr. G. WILSONasked the President of the Board of Education the number of children already examined by the medical staffs and certified as mentally defective for whom no accommodation is available; and the number of children reported as mentally defective who still require to be specially examined by school medical officers?
§ Lord E. PERCYMy latest statistical information on the subject is contained in Appendix F of the Chief Medical Officer's Report for 1920. It would appear that in 293 areas for which data have been tabulated there were, approximately, 28,000 children reported as mentally defective in the category of "feebleminded." This included children under the local control authority. The total accommodation provided in certified special schools for educable mentally defective children is over 16,000. With regard to the last part of the question, 2275W the only definite information I have is that furnished by the medical officers themselves.