View report page

325
cognised that those suffering" from malnutrition and ansemia,
i.e., delicate children, should be specially catered for at a
school of this character. The school which it is proposed
to erect in Willesden will deal amongst others with children
belonging to one or other of the three types described above,
viz. :—
(1) Delicate children, suffering from anaemia and mal-
nutrition and predisposed to disease, especially
tuberculosis—As seen at Kettering, Birmingham,
Regent's Park and Shooter's Hill.
(2) Phthisical children in the early stages—As seen at
Kettering, Harpenden and Maitland.
It should be noted that the difference between
(1) and (2) is merely one of degree.
(3) Children who have been crippled by tuberculosis and
other conditions—As seen at Northfield, Eastcote
and Alton.
The Open-Air Residential School.—The next development
in connection with the open-air school movement was
that seen at Malvern and Maitland, where the schools are
residential in their character. The Malvern School is residential
for the so-called pre-tuberculous or delicate child,
while the residential school at Maitland is for both the pretuberculous
and the early tuberculous, as it is difficult to
differentiate between these two classes. In both cases the
idea of the treatment is to take the child away from its surroundings
and to put it under more favourable conditions,
where it is likely to grow up in a strong and healthy condition,
and at the same time receive education. The day
open-air school, in which the child spends only fifty or sixty
out of 168 hours per week at the school has been found not