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SCHOOL MEDICAL SERVICE IN RELATION TO THE
PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS.
(a) No. of Schools and Accommodation.
In 1924 there were in Croydon:
(a) 20 provided schools, including 52 departments.
(b) 13 non-provided schools, including 22 departments.
(c) 2 Central Schools, including 2 departments.
The total provision in 1924 in the borough for elementary
school children thus amounted to 35 schools, with 76 departments.
The number of children on the register on December 31st,
1924, was 23,953, as compared with 24,041 in 1923.
(b) School Hygiene.
During the course of the year the systematic reports by medical
officers on the hygienic aspects of the interior and of the
precincts of each school visited by them were combined with a
special enquiry, particulars of which are given in the appendix to
this report. A visit is paid to each class-room, to ascertain the
conditions as regards ventilation, cleaning, lighting, arrangement
and type of desks, etc., while the opportunity is taken of making a
general survey of the children, and of picking out for special inspection
any showing evidence of such defects as mouth-breathing,
deafness, ear discharge, defective vision and eye conditions, overstrain,
etc.