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"The buildings are constructed in brickwork, with red
facings and Portland stone dressings in quoins and Entrance
Lobbies. The facings to Assembly Hall are panelled out in
rough cast with pilasters in red brick facings. The roofs
are covered with red Brindled Broseley tiles.
"There are two blocks of offices, one for Boys, and one
for Girls and Infants. These are built with red brick facings,
glazed bricks and rough cast, with tiled roofs over water
closets."
(b) General Notes:—The school buildings are regularly
and thoroughly inspected each year, and structural alterations
and improvements are carried out whenever opportunity
arises.
During 1926, internal redecoration was carried out in the
following schools:—Dundonald, all departments; Haydons
Girls' and Infants' Schools; Old Central School; and Cottenham
Park Mixed School. Dundonald School was also painted
externally and the conversion of the old trough closets into
six separate single closets was completed in the Girls' School.
The play-ground of Cottenham Park Girls' School was resurfaced.
Electric lighting replaced gas lighting in Cottenham
Park School, and anthracite stoves for heating were
placed in three classrooms. New heating stoves have also
been placed in four rooms of Effra Infants' School. The
lighting (gas) in Old Central School has been improved.
(c) Desks:—The School furniture is gradually being
brought up to date by the conversion of the old long desks
into dual desks, or by entirely new furniture. The schools
are taken in rotation.
Medical Inspection:—The children inspected in routine
manner in accordance with the Board's schedule, were (i.)
all new admissions ("Entrants"); (ii.) those of 8-9 years of
age ("Intermediates"); and (iii.) those of 12-13 years of age
("Leavers"). All the children in the Queen's Road Special
School were examined. Total "Routine" inspections in 1926=
1759 (v. Table I., Appendix).
Finding's of Medical Inspection:—(v. Table II., Appendix).
Routine Inspections are conducted as above. "Special"
inspections (any age) are made daily, 9.30 a.m., at the Treatment
Clinic (Southey Hall), or at the "Inspection" Clinic on
Tuesday afternoon sessions.
A casual glance at the numbers of defects discovered at
such inspections might lead to the hasty and very erroneous
conclusion that the medical inspection of school children had
brought about little or no improvement in conditions since its
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