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CO-ORDINATION.
The co-ordination of maternity and child welfare and of school
medical inspection and treatment which has been noted in the
Annual Report for the year 1927 has become even more complete.
The co-ordination, as has been previous stated, is greatly facilitated
by the arrangement by which both these forms of public health
activity are conducted together in Health Centres. There are two
main Health Centres situate at 13, Mattock Lane, and at Cherington
House, and two temporary Centres at Greenford and at Northolt.
The Centre at Greenford has become quite inadequate to meet
the needs of that area and plans are being submitted for a new
Centre to be erected on ground at Coston's Farm which was recently
acquired by the Council as a public recreation ground.
THE SCHOOL MEDICAL SERVICE IN RELATION
TO PUBLIC HEALTH.
School Hygiene.
Under the control of the Education Authority at the end of
the year there were 18 public elementary schools embracing 33
departments. Towards the end of the year the new Coston's
School to serve the demands of Greenford was nearing completion.
As it was recognised that Coston's School alone would not be
sufficient to meet the needs of this rapidly increasing area a further
new school was decided upon. This latest school, Stanhope, is
to be of the Derbyshire type—a true open-air school—in which
the classrooms can be kept open in winter and summer yet sheltered
from the wind and adequately warmed. The Derbyshire type of
school has proved a success not only in the county of its origin
but in other places.
The general adoption of open-air principles as exemplified by
this type of school construction should tend to prevent the cases
of anaemia and malnutrition found amongst school children and
overcome the necessity of providing a special open-air school for
such cases.
It is to be hoped that the policy of the Education Committee
will be to continue to erect open-air schools of the Derbyshire type
in the rapidly developing areas of Greenford and Northolt,