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A Nurse is in constant attendance during school sessions
and on Saturday mornings, and the Doctor concerned pays two
sessional visits weekly, or more if required.
Suitable defects found at routine inspection at the Schools,
as well as special cases, are referred by the School Doctors for
treatment, but the chief source of attendances is from the
special cases submitted by Teachers.
The Clinic at Stratford includes two Dental Clinics,
attended by Mr. J. S. Dick and Miss H. M. Gubb. That at
Swanscombe Street also includes the Dental Clinic previously
situated at Balaam Street, and is attended by Mr. L. K. Percy.
A summary of the dental work appears in Table IV., Group
III., of the Appendix.
The following is a summation of the medical cases attending
the four Clinics during 1926: —
New Cases Admitted. Total Attendance. No. of Children
Discharged.
13,489 57,867 13,659
The above figures do not include the work of the Ophthalmic
Surgeons, which is done at the Balaam Street Clinic, and
is summarised in Table IV., Group II., of the Appendix.
(9) Open Air Education.
(a) Every opportunity is taken when weather permits of
holding classes in the playgrounds; and even in unsettled
weather, suitable sheds enable this to be done. Physical exercises
and drill, as well as games, especially lend themselves to
Open Air Classes.
(b) School journeys to places of educational interest, e.g.,
Epping Forest, take place during the summer months of the
year.
(c) School Camps. School Holiday Camps both for boys
and girls have now become a regular institution. Their value
has been increasingly manifest the last two years.
Efforts are being made to repeat the innovation, but on a
larger scale. During 1926, 239 boys and 132 girls were sent
away for a fortnight to Shoeburyness and Dymchurch Camps
respectively during the summer vacation.