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cloakrooms of the Infants Department. Improvements were
also carried out to the electric lighting of the classroom
formerly used as a hall in the Senior Girls' Department. A
further portion of the tar-paved playground was re-laid and
the old cinder portion tar-paved.
At the All Saints Junior Girls' and Infants' School the
electric lighting was improved in two of the classrooms.
A new stove was installed in the babies' room at the
Cottenham Park School.
Improvements were carried out to the tar-paving of the
playground at the Wimbledon Park School with a view to
preventing rainwater accumulating.
With regard to equipment, wallboards were provided for
classrooms in the following schools:—
Dundonald Road Junior Boys' ... one classroom
Dundonald Road Junior Girls' and
Infants' one classroom
Wimbledon Park two classrooms
Cottenham Park one classroom
Forty-eight dual table desks with flat tops and ninety-six
chairs for use with these tables were provided in the All Saints
Junior Girls' and Infants' School to replace old dual desks.
4. MEDICAL INSPECTION.
(a) The children medically examined were those in the
three groups required by the Code of the Board of Education.
These included:—
(i) Entrants: i.e., tho'se children admitted to school
for the first time since the last routine medical
inspection.
(ii) Second Age Group: i.e., those children who have
attained their eighth birthday since the last routine
medical inspection, or who will be nine years of
age during the current year.
(iii) Third Age Group: i.e., those children who have
attained their twelfth birthday since the last
routine medical inspection, or who will be thirteen
years of age during the current year.
(iv) Children in an additional Age Group were medically
examined in the Boys' and Girls' Central School.
These were scholars who had attained the age of
fourteen years during 1937.
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