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"(a) That the District Council be asked to proceed with
the purchase of the site of 7.3 acres at Denzil
Road, and to raise the necessary loan.
"(b) That the Architect be requested to prepare revised
sketch plans of the proposed school, in the light of
the suggestions contained in the Board's letter, and
that it be referred to the Chairman of the Children's
Care Committee and the Chairman of the
School Accommodation Committee, with the Medical
Officer and the Architect, to report thereon, and also
on the method of construction, to the School
Management Committee, and also to visit recently
erected institutions of the same character as the
school now proposed."
Visits to Schools and Institutions.
In accordance with the instructions contained in resolution
(b) above, we have to report that we have visited
open air schools and similar institutions, as follows :—
1. The Open=Air Recovery Schools, Kettering.
These schools were opened in December, 1913. The
buildings are of brick and slate, for twenty Tuberculous,
forty Delicate, and forty Mentally Defective Children, and
stand on about one acre of land. They have been erected
by the Kettering Local Education Authority, which has a
school population of about 5,000. The schools are for day
scholars only.
In connection with the Kettering Open Air Recovery
Schools the following points arose or were specially brought
to our notice :—
(1) There is no need to separate the phthisical from the
delicate children, as there is no danger of infection
under open air conditions.