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those suspected to be suffering from tuberculosis or living in conditions rendering
them particularly liable to the disease. The tuberculosis officers of the areas in which
the schools are situated serve as medical officers of the schools and pay weekly visits
to them.
The six schools—Elizabethan (Fulham), Geere House (Stepney), Kensal House
(Paddington), Springwell House (Battersea), Stormont House (Hackney), and
Nightingale House (Bermondsey)—have a total nominal roll of 598. The number
on the roll on 31st December, 1938, was 559, and the average attendance for the
year was 476.
Admission to these schools is granted on a certificate of the medical officer of
the Council, and children returning home after a period of residential treatment
in sanatoria are given preference. During the year 1938, 189 children were
admitted and 199 discharged. Of the latter, 55 were transferred as fit to attend
elementary schools, 85 were fit for work on attaining school-leaving age, 37 moved
away, 17 were transferred to other special schools, and 5 were discharged for other
reasons (e.g., the distance was found to be too great for the children). During the
year, 90 children were also transferred to institutions for residential treatment for
tuberculosis or admitted to hospitals for various reasons.
During 1938, arrangements were made under the ordinary school journey
organisation for 362 children on the rolls of open-air schools (type T) to have a holiday
out of London for two weeks. A further party of 35 children was accommodated
at the Council's Millfield Convalescent Hospital for a fortnight.
Convalescent
camp schools

The actual number of children away at these schools at one time in 1938 was:
Bushy Park, 250; St. Leonards, 64; Margate, 87; Broadstairs, 20; Bournemouth,
29; Hastings, 10 ; Sandon, 20 ; total, 480.
The small home at Sandon accommodates the children needing a country
holiday from the various types of special schools.
The number of open-air classes held in connection with the elementary schools
in 1938 was 215. Of these, 13 were of type A (children selected on medical grounds
from a group of schools); 121 were of type B (children selected on medical grounds
from the various classes of a single school); 18 were of type C (consisting of a single
class from one school, educated continuously at one open-air station); and 63 of
type D (consisting in a rotation of classes from one school occupying one open-air
station).
Fifteen classes are permanent, that is to say they are outside the yearly programme
and do not need re-authorisation each year. In addition, 126 of the 215
classes were continued throughout the winter, where the suitability of the sites had
been approved by the school medical officer. Of the 215 classes, 77 were held in
parks, gardens, playing-fields and other open sites, while 102 were held in school
playgrounds, of which 36 were roof playgrounds.
Open-air
classes in
parks and
playgrounds