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When the scheme of reorganisation of the Elementary
Schools in Croydon is completed, as it is anticipated it will be by
the Autumn of 1931, Centres for Domestic Subjects will cease to
exist as such. Instead, special rooms will be available for each
Senior Girls' School whereby the older girls in such schools will
be able to receive the necessary instruction in Domestic Subjects
as part of the normal school curriculum and, generally speaking,
on the school premises.
In addition to the Centres and rooms enumerated above, additional
rooms are foreshadowed in connection with the new Senior
Schools now in process of erection.
SECONDARY SCHOOLS.
The usual arrangements for the medical examination of
secondary school children were continued in 1930; 762 children
were examined, 500 of whom were boys and 262 girls. Table
XXXV gives the detailed findings. Fifty-nine boys (11.8 per
cent.) and 52 girls (19.8 per cent.) were found to require treatment,
the most usual defect in the boys being dental defects and
in the girls defective vision.
Treatment is not provided at the Council's School Clinics for
these children except under special circumstances of financial
need.
Although the figures are small, a similar table as for elementary
school children relating to nutrition has been included below.