ided that
the patients in their own interests or in the interests of
society should be placed on the register:--
(_a._) Mental defectives who are not inmates of mental
hospitals who in the judgment of the Eugenic Board come within
the definition of "feeble-minded" in section 2, Class V, of
the Mental Defectives Act, 1911.
(_b._) Persons afflicted with epilepsy associated with
automatism or other conditions rendering them especially
liable to dangerous, immoral, or otherwise anti-social
manifestations, and in the case of juvenile epileptics the
mere frequency of fits rendering them unsuitable for
attendance at ordinary schools.
(_c._) Moral imbeciles as defined in the English Mental
Deficiency Act, 1913.
(_d._) Persons discharged from mental hospitals.
(5.) That the care of backward and feeble-minded children, so
long as these remain in an educable stage, shall be the duty,
as at present, of the Education Department.
(6.) That the Education Department obtain the services of
psychological experts with a view to creating a comprehensive
system providing increased facilities for the study of the
individual child in school, for the classification of children
according to their mental capacities, and for the adaptation
of the curriculum to the needs of special children. This may
necessitate the establishment of an increased number of
special classes, an extension of the residential special
schools, and also provision for social readjustment of the
children when required.
(7.) That fuller provision be made in connection with our
Universities and training colleges for the education of
teachers in child psychology and its practical application,
and for their training for service in special classes and
special schools.
(8.) That full use be made of residential special schools for
those cases who fail to benefit by attendance at special
classes, but who are considered capable of training in manual
work or handicrafts. The lower grades of the feeble-minded who
require merely custodial care should, as a general rule, be
excluded from special schools, but where there is any doubt as
to a child's degree of mentality or aptitude for manual
training admission to a special school for a probationary
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