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In July of this year the Committee resolved to seek approval
from the Board of Education for the payment of a per capita
grant contribution in respect of East Ham scholars sent to the
Hospital through the School Medical Service.
All children referred by the Authority's Medical Officers to
the Hospital for treatment are kept under observation at frequent
intervals at one or other of the School Clinics, in order that the
progress of the cases may be watched and recorded, and to ensure
that treatment has not been allowed to lapse. If at any time such
a case fails to attend the School Clinic it automatically becomes included
in the following up list of one of the School Nurses. A large
amount of work has been undertaken at the Hospital and has
been highly satisfactory.
During the year 1925, 48 out-patients and 12 in-patients have
received orthopaedic treatment. The total out-patients attendances
was 1,670, whilst the average number of weeks involved in the
case of each in-patient was 4.6.
9. OPEN-AIR EDUCATION.
(а) Playground Classes.
In a few cases playground classes continue to be held
nccasionally.
(б) School Camps.
No School Camps were held during the year 1925.
(c) Open-Air Classrooms in Public Elementary Schools.
None of the classrooms in the schools of the Borough have
been constructed on the open-air principle.
(,d) Day Open-Air Schools.
There are unfortunately no open-air schools in the Borough.
The provision of a day open-air school, erected on a suitable
site within the Borough, would tend markedly towards reducing
the number of definitely physically defective children, with the result
that, at no distant date, the present serious need for a large
number of places in a Physically Defective Centre and a Residential
Open-air School would be less urgent.