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Tulse Hill Ward.
Brixton Hill (Wesleyan).
Trent Road (Roman Catholic).
Norwood Ward.
Eden Road (Wesleyan)
Elder Road (St. Luke).
Knights Hill Road (Jews Hospital and Orphan
Asylum).
The Borough Council, on December 8th, 1904, instructed the
Medical Officer to have an examination made of the drainage
of all the Public Elementary Schools in the Borough of Lambeth.
Underfed Children.
The important question of the proper feeding of children,
whilst attending elementary (or other) schools, has engaged the
attention of the Council during 1904, in connection with resolutions
on the subject passed by the Bethnal Green, Hackney, and
Battersea Borough Councils, and the Lambeth Borough Council
has decided that the duty of providing food fof underfed children
in elementary schools is one which should be carried out by the
State, and that, for such a purpose, legislation is urgently required.
At the same time, the Council expressed appreciation of the
valuable work hitherto done by voluntary effort in connection with
underfed children in elementary schools.
CLERICAL STAFF.
The Clerical Staff consists of 3 Clerks—a chief (W. R.
Lawrence), and two others (Messrs. A. L. Baxter and W. J.
Lawrence), and a junior, or boy (Albert E. Ruel).*
The Clerical work in connection with the Department during
* Appointed by the Council permanently on February 14th, 1904.