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CO-ORDINATION.
Every effort has been made to secure complete co-ordination
between the various health services maintained by the Council and
the arrangements made to attain this object, particularly those
which co-ordinate the work of the school medical and maternity
and child welfare departments, have been commented upon in
previous years.
In 1931 particular reference was made to a scheme to secure
the thorough medical examination of children between one and five
years of age. The progress made in this direction is discussed in
the maternity and child welfare section of the annual report.
THE SCHOOL MEDICAL SERVICE IN RELATION TO
PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS.
School Hygiene.
The new Perivale School, which was opened in April, 1934,
brought the number of school departments in the Borough to 43,
although by the closure of the North Ealing Boys' School at the
Christmas vacation this total was reduced to 42.
The construction of the Perivale School, consisting of Junior
Mixed and Infants' Departments with accommodation for 850
children, was a new departure on the part of the Education Committee.
The building is of the open-air type, but of a semipermanent
construction. The building consists of timber framing,
covered externally with creosoted weatherboarding and internally
with sound absorbing "Insulwood" boarding. All the classrooms
are arranged with doors and clerestory windows on boths sides,
the doors opening to verandahs and giving the maximum of cross
ventilation.
During the year considerable alterations were carried out at
St. John's School, following the transfer of the building to the
control of the local education authority. In the near future
consideration of the hygienic conditions of other of the older schools
of the Borough will be necessary with the object of bringing them
more into line with modern requirements.
The annual inspection of the sanitary conveniences and
lavatories made by the Sanitary Inspectors revealed only a few
minor defects to which attention was called.