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children received a full course of protective injections, and a
further seven were undergoing a course at the end of the year.
257 children were Schick-tested during the year, 263 of these being
children who had been immunised in 1938. The 345 children who
were protected during 1939 were awaiting the Schick Test at the
end of the year.
VI.— OPEN-AIR EDUCATION.
Bounds Green Girls' School carried out a school journey to
Ryde, in the Isle of Wight, for a fortnight in May in which 24
children and two teachers took part.
The Juvenile Organisations' Camp was held as usual in August
at New Romney and 158 children went to camp, 85 boys and 73
girls. As in former years the children wyho went to camp derived
very great benefit from their holiday.
Six boys and six girls were sent for periods of six weeks to the
Russell Cotes School of Recovery, at Parkstone, Dorset, and three
boys and two girls to Collington Manor, Bexhill. Four boys and
13 girls were sent to the Palmers Green Holiday Home at
Shoeburyness.
VII.—PHYSICAL TRAINING.
The arrangements were unchanged from the previous year, and
were in the hands of the teachers, supervised by special organisers.
School Baths.
The attendances made by children at the Western Road Baths
were 26,712i, while those at the Swimming Pool in Durnsford Road
numbered 12,194. The number of school children gaining certificates
of proficiency in swimming from the Wood Green School Sports
Association during the year was 851. This number included 101
certificates for swimming 880' yards.
VIII.—PROVISION OF MEALS.
Meals were provided as in former years at the Dining Centre
in White Hart Lane School. The number of children w'ho received
meals at the Centre din ing the year was 134, and of this number
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