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The Authority's orthopaedic scheme, which came into
operation towards the end of the year, is a joint scheme of the
Education and Maternity and Child Welfare Committees, and
applies therefore to all children from birth to school-leaving age.
3—SCHOOL HYGIENE.
Muswell Hill—St. James' (Church of England).
The hygiene of these school buildings has been greatly
improved by work undertaken in 1930 for the better heating,
lighting and ventilation of the school. The offices have been
reconstructed and a hall has been provided.
Crouch End and Holy Innocents' Schools.
The premises of the Holy Innocents' School have been condemned
by the Board of Education as being quite unsuitable for
the purposes of a public elementary school. The Board have
also reported that the Crouch End School buildings are unsatisfactory
at the present time, but that they are capable of being
altered and improved so as to fulfil modern requirements.
The Education Committee's proposed Scheme for the Reorganisation
of Schools provided for the discontinuance of the
Holy Innocents' School and the reconstruction of the Crouch
End School. The consideration of this scheme has been deferred
by the Town Council pending the decision of Parliament with
regard to the Education Bill for the raising of the school
leaving-age.
4—MEDICAL INSPECTION.
The arrangements for the routine medical inspection of the
children are briefly as follows:—
(1) The age groups inspected are "entrants" (age 5),
"intermediates" (age 8) and "leavers" (age 12 and over).
(2) The inspection covers the entire schedule of the Board of
Education and includes a record of the date of inspection,
standard and regularity of attendance, age, state of
clothing and footgear, height, weight, nutrition, cleanliness,
teeth, nose and throat, glands of neck, eyes, vision, ears,
hearing, speech, mental condition, tuberculosis, rickets,
deformities, spinal disease, infectious and contagious disease,
heart and circulation, lungs, nervous disease and any other