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Schools.
The Public Elementary Schools consist of 49 Council Schools
and 13 Non-Provided Schools.
In addition there are two Schools for Mentally and Physically
Defective Children, two Centres lor the Deaf, one Open-Air Day
School, and one Residential Open-Air School, and two Nursery
Schools, each to accommodate 120 children.
The School Medical Service is administered by the Chief
School Medical Officer (who is also the Medical Officer of Health)
with a whole-time staff of a Chief Assistant School Medical Officer,
6 Assistant Medical Officers, 5 Dental Surgeons, 28 Nurses and
9 Clerks.
There are still some very obsolete school buildings, but the
majority of the Schools are of fairly recent design. In this connection
the following works have been carried out during the year
at certain schools:—
Removal of galleries and reflooring.
Removal of and re-erection of partition and provision
of additional glass partitions to provide a hall, and two
classrooms in lieu of existing two large rooms.
Provision of new Dining Centre to accommodate
200 children.
Division of two large rooms by a folding screen in
order to provide a hall.
Replacement of heating boiler.
Provision of dining room.
Re-modelling and modernising of Domestic Centres.
Re-decoration of schools.
Improvement in natural lighting in three Handicrafts
Centres.
Extensive alterations and additions to one school.
In connection with the checking of the spread of epidemic
disease, it has been the practice for a long time, for the Medical
Officer of Health, on receiving information of the occurrence of
infectious disease in the family of a scholar, to send a red coloured
notice to the Head Teachers of the school attended(Day School
and Sunday School) requesting the exclusion of children coming
from the infected house. This notice is followed up by a white
notice freeing the family from quarantine at the completion of the
necessary isolation and the official disinfection of the premises.
A supply of disinfectants for general or special use in schools is
supplied by the Education Authority.
The necessity did not arise requiring the closing of any
school or department either wholly or partially during 1934, on
account of infectious diseases.
Only one complaint was received as to the unsatisfactory
water supply at the Council's Public Elementary Schools or Non-
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