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A certain amount of progress has been made.
On the 16th February a joint report was presented to the
Special School Provision Sub-Committee with reference to the
provision of an open-air school. On the 13th July plans, designed
to provide facilities on the lines of those of the Knowle (Bristol)
Day Open-Air School, were submitted to this Sub-Committee,
who approved the principle of the provision of an open-air school
on the Benton Road site, to accommodate 100 children.
The Works and Sites Committee at its meeting on the 13th
July approved the plans in detail, subject to the preliminary
observations of the Board of Education. On the 12th October
an amended outline plan, which had been prepared as a result of
suggestions made by the Board of Education, was placed before
the Special School Provision Sub-Committee. At a subsequent
meeting of this Sub-Committee on the 9th November, plans were
re-submitted embodying detailed amendments as suggested in
consultation with the Board of Education. The Special School
Provision Sub-Committee at its meeting on the 14th December
reaffirmed its decision to provide an open-air school, arising from
the reception of a deputation by the Education Committee on the
16th November. The Works and Sites Committee at its meeting
on the 16th December recommended that the plans, together
with full specification and inclusive estimate of the cost of the
provision, be submitted to the Board of Education for final
approval, and that, subject to such approval, arrangements be
made for the issue of the statutory notice, application for loan,
etc.
Unless, therefore, something unforeseen happens in the
interim, one hopes that something tangible may result during the
forthcoming year.
At the end of the year 1925 I had records of 185 children who
had been examined at school and considered to be in a pretubercular
condition. 91 of these are attending the Tuberculosis
Dispensary for observation.