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The women assistants are not now provided by the caretakers,
but are directly employed by the Committee.
GENERAL VIEW OF THE HYGIENIC CONDITIONS
PREVAILING AT THE SCHOOLS.
I.—Non-Provided. Four schools: eight departments. (1)
St. James's, Upper Edmonton, for boys, girls and infants; (2) The
National Schools, Sweet Briar Walk, Lower Edmonton, for girls and
infants; (3) The Lower Latymer School, Maldon Road, Lower Edmonton,
for boys; (4) St. Edmund's Roman Catholic School, corner of Hertford
Road and Bounces Road, Lower Edmonton, for infants and senior mixed.
THE NATIONAL SCHOOL.—Mr. Jifkin's lease of the orchard
at the back of the National Schools expired in 1910, yet at date of writing,
I find that the playground has not been enlarged. The present area is so
small that only about one-half of the children can take exercise at one
time. It is necessary once again to call attention to the playground at
the National School. During wet weather, and for some time afterwards,
it is covered with pools of water, owing to the fact that the surface is
not properly drained. This not only interferes with its use as a playground,
but also tends to cause the school itself to be unhealthy. The same
stony, uneven surface, exists in the playgrounds of St. James's and Lower
Latymer Schools. They should all be properly drained and levelled, and
then either asphalted or paved.
St. Edmund's School was first used on March 1st, 1912.
There is an infants' department, accommodating 88 children, and a senior
mixed department, accommodating 208 boys and girls. This school is lit
by electric light, and warmed by hot water pipes and radiators. There
are no fireplaces to warm the scholars, if and when, the hot-water system
should temporarily break down.