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which occupies a position on the opposite side of the road, and
now this temporary school is so overcrowded as to make the completion
of the new school a matter of great urgency.
Twice during the year the Infants' Department of Betham's
School was flooded, once when the school was open and once during
the Christmas vacation, but apart from the inconvenience caused
to the teachers and children on the first occasion, no injury to
health resulted. The floors, made with concrete and surfaced with
wood blocks, very quickly dried. This site has proved an unsatisfactory
one, not only on account of its liability to flooding, which
may to a large extent be obviated by the works which are being
carried out to widen the ditches and main water course, but also
by reason of the high trees which on the closely adjoining property
obscure the main windows and prevent the access of direct sunlight
throughout the whole year.
Medical Inspection.
The inspections carried out at the schools in the Borough
included the following groups :—
1.— Routine inspections as required by the Board of Education
as follows:—
(a) Entrants— All children admitted to school for the first
time 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 twelve or who will be twelve
before the end of the year, together with those over
that age not previously examined.
2.— Non-routine inspections as follows :—
(a) Children, not in the aforementioned routine groups, who
are presented by the head-teachers for examination
for some defect or suspected defect.
(b) Children requiring supervision on account of some defect
found at a previous routine or non-routine examination.