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A great deal of physical training apparatus has been supplied
to the schools in order that the syllabus of the Board of
Education may be carried out.
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 three
halfpence for each child and this is paid by the Education
Committee. Under this arrangement 22,487 attendances
were made. This is nearly twice the number made in 1935.
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.
Meals are provided mid-day by the Education Committee
for the children attending the Special School. Particulars
of the meals supplied are given under the section of this
report dealing with the Special School.
No meals were provided during the year for children
attending the other schools. The Education Committee, however,
supplied one hundred and two children suffering
from subnormal nutrition with milk in school, a decrease of
eleven on the figure for the previous year. These cases
were selected by the School Medical Inspector during the
periodical surveys which were held, and the grant of free
milk was made after the financial circumstances of the family
had been investigated by a Sub-Committee specially appointed
for the purpose.
Formerly, the milk was supplied for a period of three
months. The children are weighed at the commencement and
then re-inspected and re-weighed at the end of this period.
Later in the year it was decided to grant the milk for a period
of six months and to supply it to these children during morning
and afternoon sessions. At the same time the Committee
decided to adopt the policy of interpreting their scale on
wider and more generous lines.
Arrangements are available in all the schools for
scholars to receive milk daily, at the cost of the
parents, under the scheme of the National Milk Publicity
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