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INSTRUCTION IN SPECIAL SUBJECTS.
In the time-table for the year commencing 1st August, 1938,
the following provision is made for the instruction of Senior girls in
special subjects, e.g., Cookery, Homecraft, Housewifery, Domestic
Science:—
Intensive Housewifery Centres—
Purley Oaks.
Tavistock.
Cookery and Homecraft Centres—
Howard (Domestic Science).
Ingram (Domestic Science and Homecraft).
Sydenham (Cookery, Homecraft and Domestic Science).
Special Rooms or Centres reserved for School named—
Ashburton (Domestic Science).
Benson (Domestic Science).
British Girls, Polytechnic (Domestic Science).
Davidson (Domestic Science).
Ecclesbourne (Domestic Science).
Elmwood (Domestic Science.
Kingsley (Domestic Science).
Lanfranc (West Thornton Centre—Domestic Science).
Oval (Domestic Science).
Portland (Woodside Centre—Domestic Science).
Tavistock (Domestic Science and Homecraft).
Norbury Manor (Domestic Science).
Rockmount (Domestic Science).
Waddon (Domestic Science).
Archbishop Tenison's (Domestic Science).
Lady Edridge (Domestic Science).
Heath Clark (Domestic Science).
Centres for Domestic Subjects have now practically ceased to
exist as such. Instead, special rooms or Centres are available for
each Senior Girls' School, whereby the older girls in such schools
are able to receive the necessary instruction in Domestic Subjects
as part of the normal school curriculum and, generally speaking,
or the school premises.
Causes of Death in Children of School Age.
Taking the school population as 25,436, the death rate per 1,000
in school children was 1.53.