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Edmonton 1914
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Edmonton]
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| Name of Chapel or Place. | On the Books. | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1912 | 1913 | 1914 | |
| Congregational, Fore Street | 318 | 3°4 | 278 |
| ,, Angel Road | 347 | 3°4 | 274 |
| People's Tabernacle | 242 | 278 | 291 |
| Tanner's End Mission | 600 | 600 | 500 |
| Wesleyan | 426 | 54° | 53o |
| Congregational, Lower Edmonton | *400 | 466 | 400 |
| Baptist | 630 | 500 | |
| Primitive Methodist | 176 | 189 | 207 |
| Belmont Hall Brethren | *200 | 174 | 155 |
| Totals | 3339 | 3250 | 3135 |
| *These figures are unreliable. | |||
Roman Catholic Sunday School, Hertford Road. The attendance averages
195 children—boys, 60; girls, 85; and infants 50.
The Socialist Sunday School was reopened on February 15th, 1913. The
attendance of boys, girls, and infants is about 50.
Presuming that no scholars attend more than one Sunday School, there
are something like 9,196 persons attending Sunday Schools in Edmonton, with
varied regularity.
As I have stated in previous years, Sunday School attendance may be, if
not supervised, a considerable factor in the spread of contagious and infectious
diseases. The scholars in Sunday Schools are often more overcrowded than in
day schools, and the meetings often take place in buildings not specially
adapted for that purpose. It is urgently necessary that the powers of Local
Sanitary Authories for dealing with these institutions should be both enlarged
and strengthened.
PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS.
Mr. Arthur Heap, B.A., LL.B. Lond., is the Secretary of the Education
Committee, whose offices are in Brettenham Road, Upper Edmonton.
The management of these schools has been delegated by my Council to an
Education Committee, which consists of fifteen members of their own body,