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family history of consumption. The children bring their
own food and have two meals a day, one at 12 noon, and
the other at 4 p.m. The children are supplied during cold
or wet weather with clogs, rugs, shawls and foot and hand
warmers as may be required. The heating agencies in the
warmers are slow combustion briquettes. The school is
conducted all the year round. Two teachers are employed,
one certificated and the other un-certificated. In addition a
man is employed to teach leather work.
IX. Regent's Park Open Air School (L.C.C.).
This is a school for 64 delicate children who are drawn
from Stanhope Street and Hawley Crescent Schools. The
children leave these schools at 9 o'clock each morning to
attend the Open Air School at Regent's Park, near York
Gate, and get back at 4 p.m. to their schools again. This
School is open from May to October. The children are fed
at the school by the Alexandra Trust, getting one meal a
day. The buildings in which the children are taught are
wood farming with canvas roofs and awnings for two sides,
which are put up on the sides according to the weather and
direction of the wind. The floor is of earth covered with
gravel. The children are provided with blankets and a
macintosh. There are two classes and two teachers, and
two women are employed for 1½ hours during the dinner
interval.
X. Shooter's Hill Open Air School (L.C.C.).
This is a school for 100 delicate children. It is situate
on 6 acres of land, 3½ of which are wooded. The buildings
consist of a head teacher's room, a nurse's room, a tool
shed, a clog room, and a large bungalow with canvas sides
and wood floor. As much teaching as possible is done in
the open air, and the bungalow is only used in exceptional
weather and for singing. The teaching of the children is