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17.
Garden Suburb School.
The Infant children attending the Garden Suburb School
have, since September, 1940, been housed under overcrowded
conditions in the Senior Department owing to the destruction
of the Infants' School by enemy action, A pre-fabricated
hut containing three classrooms for 40 children each, has
now been erected and brought into use.
Provision of Meals.
The two central kitchens which have been in existence
at Algernon Road and Bell Lane Schools for the past four years
provide about 3,600 meals daily. There are also kitchens at
Orange Hill Central School and the R.C. School of the Annunciation
which provide 300 and 200 meals daily respectively. The latest
figures show that 20,84-9 meals were served during one week at
thirty school canteens for children attending 46 school departments.
Owing to the shortage of kitchens there are still two
schools without canteen facilities. Due to the same cause
there are long waiting lists of children requiring meals in all
schools. On 21st June, 3351 children received ⅓ pint of milk
and 5300 received 2/3rd pint of milk (Total 8641) under the Milk
in Schools Scheme.
The Ministry of Education have given instructions to the
Ministry of Works to proceed with the erection of a Central
Kitchen on the Clitterhouse School site to provide 1000 meals
daily."
CIVIL DEFENCE.
The personnel of the Civil Defence continued to co-operate in a
diversity of ways in the work of the Public Health Department. Those at
First Aid Posts, all of which are based at Health Centres, continued to help
at the various clinics, and in addition made themselves responsible for the
cleansing of verminous conditions and in treatment of scabies, and when the
need arose, they supplemented the staff at the Day Nurseries. The personnel
at the Ambulance Depots provided transport to other nurseries for those children
who normally attended at Dole Street and Hocroft Road Day Nurseries, these
latter having been closed for a portion of the year. Their greatest contribution
however, was in the operation of the Civil Defence ambulance service and
some indication of the magnitude of that task con be gathered from the fact
that 3689 journeys were made. It is not too much to say that with the
increase of clinic services, and the variety of new duties imposed, that the
home visitation by the health visitors would have fallen to a very low level
had it not been for the help given by the Civil Defence Services. This
co-operation by the Civil Defence personnel was rendered the more praiseworthy
as it was carried out in a year of increased enemy activity, with many alert
periods.