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treatment; also dried milk, malt and oil, etc., are supplied at
reduced rates to those unable to pay the usual prices.
THE SCHOOL MEDICAL SERVICE IN RELATION TO
PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS.
School Hygiene.
The Works Sub-Committee is always alert to secure
the hygienic requirements of the schools. Suggestions from
the School Medical Officer and the Teachers always receive
sympathetic consideration. But inevitably in the case of
the older schools it is not possible to reach modern standards.
Two of our oldest schools, Kirkdale Road and Harrow
Green, are condemned and will be replaced in the near
future. In 1923 a new school for 400 boys was erected on the
Canterbury Road site to replace two temporary schools. This
school is a very great improvement on the old types of school.
It is probable that more and more children in the future will be
educated under open-air conditions and schools become correspondingly
simpler. This is desirable from all points of view.
In 1925 Cobbold Road School was converted into a Central
School for 300 children.
A new school for 350 infants is in course of erection in.
Sj bourn Street.
In 1920 central heating was installed at Downsell Road
School, and at Trumpington Road School in 1925.
In 1924 electric lighting was installed in the seven schools
hitherto lighted by gas. All the schools are now electrically
lighted.
In 1924 two covered playgrounds were provided at Cann Hall
Road School.
The latrines are kept clean and in good working order. They
are of various types illustrative of the evolution in the construction
of these conveniences. All are water closets connected with
the sewers. The cloak-rooms are similar to those in other schools
of the various periods, and fall somewhat short of present-day
ideals.