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The Ultra-Violet Light Clinic was held on tour afternoon sessions weekly.
The total attendances for the year were 1,858.
(t) Organisers of Physical Education.
Annual Report, 1946.
"This report covers the first full year since the end of the war and,
although it is possible to record a certain amount of progress in physical
education generally, many years must pass before the standard maintained
before the war is again reached. Lack of teachers, facilities, apparatus, proper
clothing and footwear, have all contributed to the insidious slide downhill, but
the importance given to physical education in all its branches in the new
Education Act should help to establish the subject on a better footing than
before. If, when children leave school at fifteen years of age, they have a love
and a knowledge of at least one game which they can continue to play, coupled
with a desire for a healthy body through exercise and better living conditions
at home and at work, the schools will have achieved a wider aim of physical
education than the restricted view which many now possess.
Personnel.
"All branches of physical education have suffered through the lack of
suitably trained teachers, particularly amongst the men, and to the continual
change of staff responsible for this subject.
"The grammar schools now all have fully qualified women specialists and
well qualified men and the position is satisfactory except in the case of the
Latymer Secondary Grammar School which is understaffed.
Facilities.
"Facilities in most schools have degenerated with the war years. Many
halls are being used for meals with consequent loss of space and time and the
bogey of dirty and greasy floors. Playground space is restricted owing to airraid
shelters and extra coke supplies and great care has to be exercised during
the playing of games on some of the surfaces.
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