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(N.B. Milk and Malt and Oil given on the recommendation of the School
Medical Officer are supplied free of cost; voluntary payments,
however, are accepted from the Parents.)
The Committee continued during the Easter and Mid-summer Vacations
to provide facilities at the Free Dinner Centres for children to receive
milk under the Milk Marketing Board's Scheme at a cost of ½d. per one
third of a pint.
All the milk supplied is pasteurised milk and the sources of supply
are subject to the approval of, and constant supervision by, the Medical
Officer of Health.
ST. CHRISTOPHER'S SPECIAL SCHOOL.
I am indebted to Mr. H. J. Edmonds for the following information:
1340 finds St. Christopher's hardly existing as a separate school.
Our number of evacuated children has now dropped to sixteen only, and
wo aro now merged with many other schools, and incorporated as tho Boys'
M.D. School, and situated at Banstead Residential School.
Following the Government's decision to evacuate children from tho
East Coast, wo loft Hopten on 29th May, 1940, forty-five strong, and
eventually reached Banstead, where teachers and children wore given a
very cordial reception, and wore very soon made comfortable.
This Institution is planned on the Cottage Home system - 20 children
to a Cottage. Fortunately, we have been able to place all Croydcn
children together in one Cottage, where they arc very happy indeed; aid
well cared for by a capable House Mother.
As for the work of the school this has suffered naturally, and
craft work such as tailoring, carpentry, and boot-repairing is impossible.
We aro, however, concentrating on the academic side, and hero, I em euro,
that most definite progress has boon made.
The children are happy and contented and extraordinarily healthy.
Visits may bo arranged at any time by arrangement with the Head Master,
and here may I say that visitors are very welcome. Boing in an
Institution the children miss the greater frc-edom obtaining in the holiday
camp st Hopton.
CAUSES OF DEATH IN CHILDREN OF SCHOOL AGE.
Taking the school population as 12,549, the death rate per 1,000
in school children vies 4.0 There were 49 deaths in children of school
ago by: Infectious Diseases 4: Pneumonia 1: Tuberculosis 3; other defined
causer, 41, namely: Malignant Disease 2; Epilepsy 1; Appendicitis 3;
Pulmonary Stenosis 1: Congenital Malformation 4; Rheumatic .Fever and
Carditis Street Accidents 2; Encephalitis 1; Osteomyelitis & due to
War Operations 25. In the Infectious Diseases group wore: Diphtheria !5;
and Cerebro Spinal Meningitis 1.
SECONDARY SCHOOLS.
The usuallarrangements for the medical inspection of secondary school
children wore continued in 1940: 552 children wore examined, 321 boys and
231 girls. Table II of Appendix gives the detailed findings.
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