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these subjects. Here there are completely fitted cookery and
laundry rooms, and a small flat for training purposes, consisting
of bedroom, living room and scullery.
In the Brentford area, Cookery and Housewifery are taught
at the Ealing Road and Brentford Senior Schools.
Each Boys' School has its own department for teaching
Handicraft and Carpentry.
General Hygiene of the Schools.
This is very satisfactory in all respects in those schools
which have been built in recent years, viz., the Central, Brentford
Senior, Lionel Road, Clifden Road, Hogarth Infants and
Beverley Infants.
Belmont, Hogarth Girls' and Ealing Road Schools, although
not built on latest modern lines are quite up to the standard of
good schools of their period.
Hogarth Boys' School is decidedly below the standard of
modern requirements as regards both design and playground
space. When the new arterial road is made, drastic changes
will be made with regard to this School.
The Strand Group of Schools are long overdue for reconstruction.
A scheme for such work was put forward some years
ago and had then to be postponed owing to the national economy
crisis.
As mentioned in previous reports the three Brentford
Church Schools, St. Paul's, St. George's and St. John's, do not
fulfil modern requirements of hygiene and playground space is
decidedly inadequate, but the Governors of the respective schools
make every effort to make the best of the material at their
disposal.
4.—MEDICAL INSPECTION.
As required by the Board of Education, the following
inspections were made during the year :—
(a) Routine Inspections of the three code groups, Entrants,
Intermediates (viz., those of about eight years of age who have