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School Camps.—School camps are run during the week-ends
from Friday to Monday evening. The camp is of a permanent
nature and is situated at Hainault. .
During the summer holidays, too, there are additional camps
where children are taken for a fortnight at a time to the same huts
at Hainault.
All the children are medically examined before they proceed
to camp and many children in this way get at least a short holiday
in the open air who otherwise would probably never leave Barking
from one year's end to another.
Open-air Classrooms in Public Elementary Schools.—The more
modern schools occupied in the town have facilities for turning the
classrooms into modified open-air classrooms, and I do hope that
in the schools which are being erected even more attention will be
given to this. Children need light as much as plants do and they
thrive best in the open air.
Ultra Violet Light Treatment.—Ultra violet light treatment
has been carried out at Faircross School during the year, the
total cases treated being 10. The period of treatment of these
cases varied from one month to twelve months and the total number
of doses was 948.
Children diagnosed as suffering from Tuberculous Glands,
Alopaecia, Rheumatism, Anaemia, Debility, Impetigo and Cervical
Adenitis are among those who have derived considerable benefit
from this treatment.
With the increased medical staff which will be operating in
the near future I hope it will be possible to maintain fuller medical
supervision over this form of treatment than has obtained in the
past.
(10) OPEN-AIR SCHOOLS.
Year after year I have discussed in my Annual Reports and
elsewhere the alternative merits of Open-air Schools as such and the