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School for Infants can be closed. Proposals for the alteration and
improvement of St. Saviour's School are maturing and it is hoped
that these will be carried out in the course of the present year.
Of the rest of the schools, Christ Church is most urgently in
need of improvements to bring it up to a reasonably hygienic
tandard.
Attention was drawn during the year to the insanitary condition
of the urinals at the Infants' and Boys' Departments of St. John's
School. The Borough Surveyor has put forward definite suggestions
with regard to their improvement, which it is hoped will be accepted
and acted upon by the Managers.
Seven of the schools are of comparatively modern construction
dating from 1905 to 1911. Six are old and fall short to a greater
or less extent of modern requirements and one is a temporary
school which has already been mentioned. In the modern schools
the cloakrooms are very satisfactory and are heated by hot water
pipes, although no special arrangements are made for the drying
of children's clothes and boots.
Children do not have to travel long distances from their homes
to the school and there is no necessity for children to partake of
meals in the schools save in exceptional cases or on rare occasions.
Medical Inspection.
Medical Inspection during the year embraced the following
groups:—
(1) Routine Inspection as required by the Board of Education
as follows:—
(a) Entrants.— All children admitted to school during the
year.
(b) Intermediates.— All children eight years of age or reaching
that age before the end of the year.
(c) Leavers.— Children who are 12 or who will be 12 before
the end of the year, together with those over that
age not previously examined.