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* i.e., known to have had treatment. A number of cases were awaiting appointments.
Average number of medical examinations per child 1.98
Average number of defects per child ... 1.57
Percentage of children examined found to be suffering from one
or more defect 63
Nursery
classes.
It is noted that experience is showing the value of increased floor space in the
training of young children, for whom older standards prescribed very restricted space.
This has been recognised in the Council's new standard planning for all infants'
departments. At recently established nursery schools more space than the minimum
15 square feet per child has been provided.
The education programme, 1935-38, provided for one additional Council nursery
school in each of the three years, and an increase in the grants in respect of voluntary
nursery schools.
The programme has been modified so that an enlargement of the Old Church-road
nursery school will take the place of one of the three additional schools, leaving two
new schools still to be provided. For one of these a site has been secured in
Kintore-street, Bermondsey, and plans have been prepared.
Additional proposals for the establishment by voluntary associations of aided
nursery schools are under consideration.
It has always been the practice of the London local education authority to
admit children from the age of three to five years, and babies' rooms are provided
in all infants' schools. All the new infants' departments have specially planned
accommodation on nursery class lines, and under the re-conditioning scheme adopted
as part of the three-year programme the accommodation of babies' rooms in ordinary
schools will, as far as possible, be brought up to the modern standard. Beds are
provided for all babies' rooms and no less than 60,000 are in use in London schools.
Large toys such as dolls' houses, push carts and other wheeled toys are provided.
The three-year programme, 1935-38, provides for experimental nursery classes
in connection with infants' departments, two in each year. Proposals have been
approved by the appropriate sub-committees for making part of this projected
provision. Equipment on the lines suggested will be provided, and in each case
a girl helper will be appointed to assist the teacher in the care of the children.
It has been decided to establish the first nursery class during the coming year
at Senior Street school, Paddington, to accommodate 40 children.
Whether future development will be in the direction of detached nursery schools
or nursery wings will depend upon the results of the present experiments.
Medical inspection and treatment—Day continuation schools, evening institutes and
junior instruction centres.
The Council in April, 1935, decided that the experiment for the voluntary
medical inspection and treatment of pupils attending day continuation schools and
three selected evening institutes, which was put into operation on 1st April, 1934,
and described in the annual report for that year, should be continued for a further