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Co-ordination:—The work of the School Medical Service
and of the Maternity and Child Welfare Section has been
still further co-ordinated by placing the entire administration
in the hands of one Committee—the Maternity and Child
Welfare Committee. This Committee is responsible for the
Ante-natal Clinics, the Infant Welfare Centres, the Day Nursery,
the issue of free milk to mothers and infants, and th°
entire schemes of medical inspection and treatment of school
children. No difficulties are experienced although financial
matters affect two Authorities—the Local Authority, and the
Local Education Authority. The closer control over the work
and better continuity in records should undoubtedly result
in more efficient service in the future.
There are no Nursery Schools in the Wimbledon Area.
The Committee has under consideration a scheme whereby
the school medical clinic, the dental clinic, and one welfare
centre—at present in separate buildings—may all be grouped
in suitable and convenient premises. The treatment of children
under school age and of nursing and expectant mothers
will thus be facilitated, and delay and trouble in going from
one clinic to the other will be avoided. In this way also,
the progress of debilitated children under school age will be
more closely supervised.
The School Medical Service in Relation to Public Elementary
Schools.
School Building's:—
(a) Wimbledon Park Netv School:—The following
information is supplied by Mr. J. Bowen, Borough Surveyor.
"The buildings comprise main School Buildings, Boys'
Offices, Girls' and Infants' Offices, and Caretaker's Cottage.
"The main School Building is designed on the bungalow
type and comprises 13 classrooms, eight of which have accommodation
for 50 scholars each, size, 22-ft. 9-ins. x 22-ft.,
and five with accommodation for 40 scholars each, size 22-ft.
x 22-ft, making a total of 600 scholars. All classrooms are
13-ft. high.
"The Classrooms are placed mainly with a South-East
aspect, one only facing North-East. At the South-West end
provision is made for an extension, comprising an Infant's
room for 50 children, which can be divided off by means of
a folding partition to provide a play room for infants as well.
"The Walls of Classrooms are finished with a 'Carterite'
dado, with sirapite plaster walls above. The floors
are l½-ins., grooved and tongued flooring on concrete.
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