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ESTIMATED ANNUAL MAINTENANCE.
Rent, Rates and Taxes (Provisional estimate of Accountant) £500
Meals 1,085
Salaries for Teachers (Education Officer's estimate) 1,500
Nurses 350
Doctor 392
Caretaker and Cleaning 292
Cooks and Helps 408
Lighting 58
Heating 116
Consumable Stock 251
Clerical Expenses 126
Ambulance and travelling expenses 2,000
Interest on or repayment of loans -
Total £7,078
ESTIMATED INCOME.
Meals £723 0 0
Board of Education Grant 3,177 10 0
£3,900 10 0
Estimated Maintenance Costs.
Chargeable to the Rates £3,177 10 0
Present maintenance costs of Furness Road and Leopold
Road Physically Defective Schools, including ambulance
charges chargeable to the rates. (Accountant's figures) 1,750 0 0
Estimated Increased Yearly Expenditure.
Chargeable to the Rates £1,427 10 0
being net maintenance costs for proposed school at Dollis Hill House, minus net maintenance costs of
Leopold Road and Furness Road Physically Defective Schools.*
* The present physically defective schools at Furness Road and Leopold Road would be abolished
under this Scheme.
I am,
Your Obedient Servant,
GEORGE F. BUCHAN,
15th March, 1924. Medical Officer of Health.
APPENDIX F.
To the Chairman and Members of the Children's Care Committee.
CRIPPLED CHILDREN.
I beg to report in accordance with the following Minute of the Children's Care Committee
dated 19th March, 1924:—
"ROYAL NATIONAL ORTHOPÆDIC INSTITUTION, STANMORE.
20.—The Board of Education have written (7/3/24) stating that the above Institution are
considering the extension of Orthopaedic treatment to school children. The Board further state
that if the Authority are willing to take advantage of this opportunity on the lines suggested in the
Chief Medical Officer's Report, they would be prepared to approve such a scheme. We have requested
the Medical Officer to present a full report for consideration at our next meeting."
The letter of the Board of Education above referred to is as follows:—
Board of Education,
Medical Branch,
54, Victoria Street, S.W. 1.
Sir, 7th March, 1924.
I am directed to inform the Authority that the Managers of the Royal National Orthopaedic
Hospital, Great Portland Street, are considering the extension of their provision for orthopaedic
treatment at Stanmore, Middlesex, and have informed the Board that they would be willing to undertake
the treatment of cripple children sent there by Local Education Authorities in the neighbourhood.