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Special Subjects Schools.
In the Chiswick area there is a school of Cookery and
Housewifery in Horticultural Place, which has accommodation
for 36 girls. The Central Girls', Belmont and Strand Schools
have their own centres for 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 Brentford Senior School.
Each Boys' School has its own department for teaching
Handicraft and Carpentry.
General Hygiene of the Schools.
As stated in previous reports, 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'.
The Strand Junior and Infant Schools are in process of
reconstruction and rebuilding, and an excellent up-to-date
school is nearly completed.
The Hogarth Group of schools will be seriously affected
by a new arterial road. This will give an opportunity for
elaborating a scheme which will remove many defects of
hygiene that are present in these schools, especially the Boys'
department.
As reported last year, the three Church Schools in Brentford
continue to do their best with their available accommodation.
4.—MEDICAI. 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
just been, or are about to be, transferred from the infants' to
a higher school) and a group who will be twelve years during
the year. There is also a fourth group of children of other ages
who have not been examined in one of the above groups.
This fourth group includes 486 children who were examined
a few weeks before they left school and the findings were
entered on special forms for the information of the Juvenile
Employment Committee.
478 Entrants, 424 Intermediates, 520 Third Age Group and
745 Others (2,167 in all) were examined during the year.