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The total number of children who had received a full course
of injections at the end of 1934 was 2,389. Of this number, 1,918
had been Schick-tested and found immune, the Schick test being
done, as a rule, five months after the course of injections has been
completed. 211 were awaiting the Schick test at the end of the
year, and 260 had failed to attend for testing when sent for.
So far as the efficiency of the immunisation is concerned, only
one case has occurred in which a child who had received a full
course of injections, and after a negative Schick test been granted
a certificate of successful immunisation, has subsequently developed
even a mild attack of diphtheria. This particular child was
immunised in January and February, 1930, and was Schick negative
when tested in October, 1930. In April, 1934, he developed a sore
throat which was thought to be suspicious of diphtheria. He was
admitted to the Isolation Hospital and treated as a very mild case
of diphtheria, being discharged well after four weeks. In the case
of two other children, both of whom had been immunised in 1931,
swabs taken from the throat during an attack of tonsillitis were
reported positive in 1934. In neither case was there any clinical
evidence of diphtheria. In one case the condition cleared up
immediately, but in the other the swabs were positive for several
weeks, although the child appeared to be perfectly well.
IX.—OPEN-AIR EDUCATION.
There are no open-air schools in Wood Green, nor are there
any open-air class rooms in any of the elementary schools. Practically
the only form of open-air education enjoyed by the children
is the open-air class conducted in the school playground during the
summer months. Considerable use seems to be made of this method
of teaching.
In a few of the schools, however, other forms of open-air
education have been enjoyed during the year by a limited number
of the scholars. In Bounds Green Boys and Bounds Green Girls
Schools, school journeys were arranged as in former years. 35 boys
from Bounds Green Boys School accompanied by two teachers took
part in a school journey at Rhyl for a fortnight in June, while
21 girls from Bounds Green Girls School accompanied by two
teachers had a school journey at Babbacombe, in Devon, also for
a fortnight in June. These school journeys, as I have had occasion
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