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Walthamstow 1938

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Walthamstow]

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Playing Fields.

Name.Area.Availability.
Salisbury Hall20 acresSchool days and Saturdays.
North Walthamstow5 „School days and Saturdays.
Sports Ground Low Hall Farm52 „School days only.
Chestnuts Farm18 „School days excepting Thursday afternoons.
Aveling Park16 „School days only.

Walthamstow Cricket Club Ground.—Pitches hired: 2 football
and 1 hockey pitch for Mondays (3 one-hour sessions) from
1st October, 1938, to 27th March, 1939. Cricket, 3½ days
per week commencing 25th April.
Sites.
Name. Area. Availability.
Blackhorse Road 0.5 acres School days and Saturdays.
Win. Elliott Whittinsham 1.7 „ School days and Saturdays.

(b)School Journeys.—The following school journeys were made during the year:—

School.Place.Date.
Shernhall Special School-
Senior ScholarsHolmbury St. Mary, SurreySeptember, 1938.
Junior ScholarsLancing, SussexJune, 1938.
Coppermill Road J .M.Coombe MartinWhitsun, 1938.

(c) School Camps.—School camps were held at Guildford
Park, St. Helens, for boys, and the Manor House, Sandown, for
girls, during May, June and July.
Forms were issued at school to the parents of children who
were likely to benefit from attendance at camp, the selection being
made on grounds of poverty and ill-nourishment. The organisation
of the camps was, broadly, on the same lines as in previous years.
Three contingents of 66 boys were in camp for fourteen days
each between the 6th May and 17th June, and four contingents of
48 girls for similar periods between the 29th April and 24th June.
A total of 390 children were sent away.
(d) Swimming.—The Swimming Committee, composed of
official and co-opted members, with two members of the staff of
the Director of Education acting as organising secretaries, again
organised considerable swimming facilities for the children attending
Public Elementary Schools.