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These Holiday Camps are greatly appreciated by the children.
Apart from the almost invariable improvement in health
which occurs, the change of environment is associated with considerable
educational value.
10. PHYSICAL TRAINING.
Physical exercises and organised games are carried out In
all the schools, the instruction being given by the class teachers
on the lines laid down in the syllabus issued by the Board of
Education.
Swimming instruction is given at the Wimbledon Corporation
Baths to children over ten years of age. The children attend
once a week and the instruction is given by the class teachers.
The cost of admission to the Baths is twopence for each child and
this is paid by the Education Committee. Where swimming is
considered inadvisable for a child on medical grounds, such as
disease of the ears or heart, the Head Teacher is notified
accordingly by the School Medical Department.
11. PROVISION OF MEALS.
Meal's are provided mid-day by the Education Committee
for the children attending the Special School. A good hot
lunch is served. The quality of the food is excellent and the
majority of children remain for this meal.
No meals were provided during the year for children attending
the other schools. 15 children however, on account of malnutrition
and anaemia received half a pint of milk daily in
school. Some of these children also received Cod Liver Oil
and Malt in addition.
More than half the Departments during the year started
supplying children with milk through the Milk Publicity Council.
The milk is supplied in bottles containing one-third of a pint,
at a cost of Id. The reports from the Head Teachers indicate
that the children have benefitted considerably from receiving
this milk.
12. SCHOOL BATHS.
The arrangements for the bathing of the children attending
the Special School are given under Section 17.
13. CO-OPERATION OF PARENTS.
Parents are invited to be present at the school during the
inspection of their children, and on the whole the response has
been very gratifying. Out of 1891 children examined at the
routine inspections, 1,231 or 65% were accompanied by one or
other parent. This enables the school medical inspector to give
detailed advice in the case of children found to be suffering from
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