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FOLLOWING UP.
There are two school nurses whose duty it is to visit the
schools and to cull upon the parents whose children have been
recommended some form of medical treatment. Without the
advice and intelligent assistance of these nurses school medical
inspection and treatment would lose much of their practical
value. In 1927 the nurses paid 1,164 visits to various school
departments and 1,583 visits to the homes of the scholars. Much
additional work has been thrown upon the nurses by the completion
of the housing estate at Coppett's Road, and a great deal
of one nurse's time is spent in travelling between this estate
and the Clinic.
When the new Public Elementary School, now in course of
erection on the Coldfall site, is completed an additional nurse
will be required, whose duty it will be to act as school nurse for
the new school as well as for the contemplated open-air school.
It is anticipated that rooms suitable for a minor ailment clinic
will be available at this new school, so that the nurse will be able
to carry out a great deal of useful work within a comparatively
restricted area, and children will not have to make the long
journey to Crouch End when only simple forms of treatment are
required.
OPEN-AIR EDUCATION.
The usual playground classes were held last year, but the
inclement weather experienced naturally caused a good deal of
interruption. Two school camps were again held, and 80 children
from Campsbourne School and 26 from St. Michael's and Highgate
Schools attended. Two school journeys were undertaken;
20 girls from North Harringay School spent ten days in France
and 40 from Stroud Green School visited Broadstairs for one
week. Ninety-two children were sent for a fortnight or longer
to holiday homes at Herne Bay and Bognor. The eight places
reserved in the School of Recovery at Parkstone and the Ogilvie
Home at Clacton have been utilised to the fullest extent, 36
children having been sent during the year to one or other institution
for a minimum period of six weeks.
The erection of a day open-air school for delicate and crippled
children has been approved in principle by the Town Council, and
it is hoped that before long such a school will actually be opened