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Roman Catholic Sunday School, Hertford Road, attendance
averages 250 children—boys, 100; girls, 110; and infants, 40.
Presuming that no scholars attend more than one Sunday School,
there are something like 9,403 persons attending Sunday School in
Edmonton, with varied regularity.
As I have stated in previous years, Sunday School attendance may
be, if not supervised, a considerable factor in the spread of contagious
and infectious diseases. The scholars in Sunday Schools are often
more overcrowded than in day schools, and the meetings often take place
in buildings not specially adapted for that purpose. It is urgently
necessary that the powers of Local Sanitary Authorities for dealing with
these institutions should be both enlarged and strengthened.
In April it was agreed by the Education Committee that no further
schools should be let for Sunday School purposes, and that notice be
given to those at present using the schools to terminate such use on
March 31st.
PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS.
Mr. Arthur Heap, B.A., LL.B. Lond., is the Secretary of the
Education Committee.
The management of these schools has been delegated by my Council
to an Education Committee, which consists of fifteen members of their own
body, and two ladies as co-opted members, one of whom is a head-mistress.
Since July, 1908, no new children under five years of age have been
admitted.
On 8th October it was moved in Council that the words
of a resolution passed on 26th April, 1904, "and that the
Council do delegate its powers under the Education Act (except the
power of raising a rate or borrowing money) to the Education Committee"
be rescinded. This was lost by 10 votes to 8. Following this, on the
same date, my Council resolved that they approve of a resolution which
Councillor Barrass was about to bring before the County Council, and
that the neighbouring District Councils be asked to request their
representatives to support it. The resolution was:—That the Middlesex
County Council views with regret the heavy burden placed on many of the
poorer districts in the County of Middlesex by the extortionate Education
Rate, and considers the time is ripe for an equalised rate; and instructs the
Education Committee to move in the matter.
In February the Education Committee resolved that no more
married women, other than widows, shall in future be appointed on the
permanent staff, and further that any woman teacher should automatically
vacate her position on her marriage.