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In swimming, the London Schools Swimming Association
Championship was won by Joyce Hawkes, a girl from Brentford
Senior School, and a team from the same school won the
"Bernard" Swimming Team Cup. This school has always had
a well-deserved reputation for swimming and it may be mentioned
that a recent scholar, Peggy Gomm, was in the British
Olympic Swimming Team.
A girl from the Central School gained third place in the
"Cyril Cobb" Shield open to all London.
The "Charter Swimming Cup" for the best swimmer in
the elementary schools of the Borough was won by Gordon
Wilkes of the Brentford Senior Boys'.
The Ealing Road Junior Mixed School won the District
Championship Swimming Competition for both Boys and Girls
and were runners-up for the District Open Championship.
11.—PROVISION OF MEALS.
The Provision of Meals Acts, 1906-14, was adopted by the
Authority in 1933 but has not yet been brought into operation.
Highly satisfactory arrangements are made at the Central
Schools for providing dinners at very moderate cost for children
who live some distance from these schools. At all the schools,
with the exception of one, milk is issued during the morning at
the cost of one half-penny for one third of a pint. About 2,240
children avail themselves of the facilities provided.
In necessitous cases where milk is required, the children are
seen by the School Medical Officer who issues the necessary
certificates. All such children are kept under observation and
weighed at intervals to note any progress that may be made in
their nutrition.
128 children are receiving free milk under these conditions.
12.—SCHOOL BATHS.
The Central Boys' School is equipped with a plunge bath
and the Central Girls' and Hogarth Infants' Schools also
possess baths. During the summer months the older children