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negotiations owing to restrictions laid down by the vendors, which would
have rendered the site useless for our purpose. At the request of the
Education Committee, the Council, in 1914, agreed to grant the use of a room
in Pymmes Park house for teaching domestic subjects to the elder girls.
This will provide for the training of those in the southern half of the district,
but the project will not be carried out during the war.
Bush Hill Park. The rapid development of this northern part of the
district necessitated an agreement in October, 1906, with the Enfield Urban
District Council to provide accommodation for 81 scholars from this neighbourhood
at the nearest Enfield School, but there was an average attendance of
286 this year. No Edmonton scholars under 5 years of age are now admitted.
Baths. The elder children are taken from the schools to learn swimming
once a week in the summer months. During the past winter, 1915-1916, this
wholesome practice has been continued as far as the boys are concerned. A
woman instructress has been appointed for the girls, but the boys are taught by
their class teachers.
Building Operations. Nothing has been done beyond the ordinary
repairs necessary to keep the buildings in good order.

There were 13,495 children on the books at the middle of the year, besides
the children attending Enfield Schools; the average number of children of the
Edmonton district attending Enfield schools during the year was 286; so that
there is in Edmonton 1 child in the public elementary schools for 5.1 inhabitants
(reckoned on the nett population); 4.9 last year.
The number of children on the books of the elementary schools of the
district at the end of June, 1915, was 13,495, and the accommodation was 4.365.