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Cheap Tram Fares.
Credit is due to the Electricity and Tramways Committee,
who through the Tramways Manager (Mr. Slattery) have
introduced cheap fares for the children during the school holidays,
to enable them to travel at little cost, to the open spaces
adjoining the Borough—particularly Wanstead Flats, with its
many acres of grassland. This has not only benefited their
health and brought happiness to many of the children, but has
proved a financial asset.
I am indebted to Mr. Slattery for the following Table, which
shows that the number of children carried at Halfpenny Fares on
all West Ham Cars and L.C.C. No. 8 Service Cars durinsr School

Note.—The extended Special Halfpenny Fare was not in
operation in 1925.
CONCLUSION.
It is inevitable that the great extension of the activities of
the School Medical Service which has occurred in recent years
should increase to a very considerable degree the amount of
time spent in the different schools by the medical staff. The
limited space available in some schools for the ordinary educational
purposes is thus encroached upon, to the serious inconvenience
of the teaching staff and scholars.
This is very regrettable, but until many of the schools are
modernised it is inevitable under the present Board of Education
Code, which lays it down that except in very exceptional cases
routine medical examination of school children should itake place
upon the school premises.
I am indebted to my chief Assistant, Dr. F. B. Skerrett, for
much of the detail contained herein, and to the rest of my staff
for their share in the compilation of this Report.
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