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This has ensured a close co-operation between the School
Medical Service and the Maternity and Child Welfare
Department.
The School Medical Department with its Ophthalmic,
Dental, Minor Ailment, and Orthopædic Clinics is centralised
in the Health Centre at Pelham Road, and one of the three
Maternity and Child Welfare Centres in the Borough is conducted
in this same building.
When any of the children attending the Maternity and
Child Welfare Centres or the Day Nursery attain the age of
five years, their medical records are forwarded to the office
of the School Medical Department in order that they may be
incorporated with their school medical inspection cards.
The School Medical Service in Relation to Public
Elementary Schools.
3. SCHOOL HYGIENE.
The sanitary condition of the Public Elementary Schools
in Wimbledon continues to be satisfactory.
The periodical inspection of the drains at the schools
is carried out by the Borough Surveyor's Department.
Repairs have been carried out to the playgrounds, and the.
surfaces improved, at the Central, Pelham Road, Dundonald
Road, Queen's Road, and Wimbledon Park Schools.
Step-flooring has been removed, and the floors relaid in the
classrooms in All Saints Junior Mixed, All Saints Junior Girls'
and Infants', and Holy Trinity Senior Mixed Schools.
An additional drinking water tap, drawn from the main
water supply, has been provided at the All Saints Junior Mixed
School.
At the Dundonald Road Schools an electric fire alarm
system has been installed at a cost of £10 13s. 0d. This displaces
the use of an outside bell previously used for this
purpose.
Arrangements have now been made for improving the
electric lighting in all the schools in the Borough.
The following painting work was carried out during the
summer holidays: external painting at Central and Pelham
Road Schools, internal painting at Pelham Road Infants'
School, and internal and external painting at Wimbledon Park
School.
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