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and two ladies as co-opted members, one of whom is a head-mistress. Since
July, 1908, no new children under five years of age have been admitted.
On Tuesday, July 1st, Dr. Langdon, one of the medical inspectors of the
Board of Education, was in Edmonton nearly all day; in the afternoon he
spent some time witnessing the work of routine medical inspection at Montagu
Road Infants' School.
In August, 1913, my Council approved of this resolution forwarded
from Cheshunt:—
"It is the opinion of this Council that the local rates should be relieved
of the amount now paid for national services in the matter
of elementary and secondary education, the maintenance of
the main roads and the administration of the Poor Law."
Delegates attended a conference convened by West Ham at the
Westminster Palace Hotel on the 2nd April to consider the case of the
Government grant to necessitious schools, which at present consists of threequarters
of any excess over 1s. 6d.
On the 4th February the Committee considered a letter from the headteachers
of boys' schools suggesting the provision of manual instruction and
suggesting that arrangements might be made at the Technical Institute and
Pymmes' Park House whereby 20 boys from each school might attend a class
in woodwork once a week.
GENERAL VIEW OF THE HYGIENIC CONDITIONS
PREVAILING AT THE SCHOOLS.
I.—Non-Provided. Four schools: eight departments. 1. St. James',
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.
Playgrounds—In August the playground of the All Saints' National
Schools was tar-paved and enlarged, which is a very great improvement on the
old state of things. At the same date a portion of the surface of the playground
of the Lower Latymer Boys' School was tar-dressed; for a time this dressing
made the surface somewhat better than the old gravel surface, but this method
of dealing with playgrounds is only a temporary expedient and further expense
must be incurred before long.