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(iii) Open Air School.—Miss E. Thompson, the Head Teacher
reports:—
Since re-opening in 1940, the Open Air School has steadily
filled the accommodation left to it. Each year, the children make
good progress: medical attention, good food (all of which is eaten)
and sensible but firm discipline in school, being the means to achieve
this happy result.
Asthma cases appear to increase as parents as well as Staff feel
they improve while at this school. The steady decrease in
orthopaedic cases attending here is a gratifying comment on the
value of treatment in early years.
The mid-day resting period has emphasised the limitation of
accommodation: one of our "rest" rooms having been allocated to
another school, while the other has also to be used as a classroom,
necessitating the packing up of furniture each mid-day, and restoring
it for the afternoon session.
The sharing of premises with two schools of different categories,
also limits the chance of taking advantage of open-air activities
when weather conditions are favourable.
At the end of 1945, the classification of cases in school was as
follows:—
Orthopaedic, 6 boys, 6 girls; Debilitated, 18 boys, 19 girls;
Cardiac, 1 boy, 4 girls; Epileptic, 1 boy, 1 girl; Asthma, 5 boys,
3 girls; Total, 31 boys, 33 girls.
(iv) Orthopaedic Scheme.—The scheme is under the clinical
charge of Mr. B. Whitchurch Howell, F.R.C.S., Consulting
Orthopaedic Surgeon.
The following table shows the work done at this Clinic:—