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with boys and girls of their own age who have been already working for two years. To give them this
training a handicraft room for boys and also a special handicraft room for girls, with specially trained
teachers, are necessary.
These two rooms could provide, in the case of girls, for dressmaking, bookbinding, light artistic
crafts, etc., and for the boys metal work, various forms of art work and other crafts having a direct
bearing on the vocation which they are likely to take up. The training would make boys familiar
with the tools which they will use when they leave school. It might be possible to take a combined
course, say, in watchmaking and optics, as the tools used for those two trades are very similar.
It is also very desirable that the girls attending the Physically Defective School should have a
course of cookery, laundry and housewifery on exactly similar lines to that given to their more healthy
colleagues in the ordinary schools. At the present time none of these girls receive any instruction in
domestic science.
Another subject which might be of value to physically defective children is gardening. Many
of these children are unsuited for indoor work, consequently if a site sufficiently large could be obtained
to provide a school garden where these boys and girls could be taught the main fundamentals of market
gardening, etc., it might prove both of educational and vocational value to them.
Taking into account, therefore, the medical and educational needs of these children, a school
with the following accommodation would be required :—
(1) Assembly hall.
(2) Eight or nine classrooms.
(3) Handicraft room for boys.
(4) Handicraft room for girls.
(5) Domestic science room for girls.
(6) Dining room.
(7) Medical room.
(8) Kitchen, scullery and larder.
(9) Bathroom with 20 spray and three adult baths, together with cloakroom, lavatories,
etc.
(10) Rest sheds.
The site should be sufficiently large to provide a school garden which could be utilised for vocational
work.
The estimated cost of building, furniture, equipment, etc., is as follows :—
Cost of building £30,000
Cost of furnishing 900
Total £30,900
Loan charges :—
Building £l,624 Fora
Furniture 108 full year.
£1,732
The cost of site would be additional.
E. DAVIES,
Director of Education.
GEORGE F. BUCHAN,
School Medical Officer.
September 23rd, 1936.
APPENDIX P.
HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
Housing.
Report by the Medical Officer of Health on the present position of Housing coming within
the terms of reference of the housing acts, 1930-35, committee.
HOUSING ACT, 1930.
The Housing Act, 1930, will be repealed by the Housing Act, 1936, which comes into operation
on 1st January, 1937. The provisions of the Act of 1930 as amended by the Housing Act, 1935,
remain unaltered in the Housing Act, 1936.
As stated in my report on Slum Clearance presented to the Committee on 6th January, 1936,
each of the clearance areas included in the Council's programme has been dealt with ; the re-housing
of the residents of these areas is in progress.