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received treatment. A general anæsthetip was administered on
1,652 occasions.
The school dental service is popular in Hornsey and, as
additional sessions were instituted in 1928, there is no doubt that
in the near future every child attending the Hornsey elementary
schools will be given the chance of having adequate dental treatment
before reaching the age for leaving school.
(i) Crippling defects.—There are 34 crippled children on the
books of the elementary schools in the Borough. In 21 of these
cases crippling is the result of infantile paralysis and in 4 of tuberculosis.
During the year two children were admitted to residential
institutions for cripples, and one is still in attendance at a day
Cripple School.
FOLLOWING UP.
There are three school nurses whose duty it is to visit the
schools and to call 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 1928 the nurses paid 1,203 visits to various school
departments and 1,624 visits to the homes of scholars.
The third school nurse took up duty in September, 1928. She
is attached to Coldfall School and her work lies mainly among
the residents on the housing estate to the north of Muswell Hill.
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 75 children
from Campsbourne School and 20 from St. Michael's and Highgate
Schools attended. Two school journeys were undertaken;
40 boys from Campsbourne School spent ten days at Hastings and
42 girls from North Harringay School spent two weeks in North
Wales and Chester. Eighty-three 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,
38 children having been sent during the year to one or other
institution for a minimum period of six weeks.