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(3) There is complete co-ordination between the Health
Services and the School Attendance Department. Daily returns
of children out of school on medical grounds are brought to notice
by the School Attendance Officers and cases of Infectious Disease
are visited by Sanitary Inspectors.
During the year the School Attendance Officers reported the
following cases:-
Measles (including German Whooping Cough 679
Measles) 2403 Chicken Pox 1593
Tonsillitis 291 Other Diseases 482
Mumps 769
There were no school closures during the year through
Infectious Disease.
The following Table gives an analysis of the defects for
which children were excluded from school during the year.
Exclusions during 1936.
Impetigo 84 Verminous 7
Scabies 174 Tinea Tonsurans:
Other Skin Diseases 41 Treated by X-Rays 18
Conjunctivitis 4 Treated at Clinic . 5
Blepharitis 2 Tinea Body 4
Mumps 12 Other Defects and
Chorea 4 Diseases 30
Enlarged Glands 7
Chicken Pox 14 443
Tonsillitis 7
Diphtheria 11 Total number of
Anaemia and Debility 5 children involved 422
Bronchitis 10
Heart 4
(9) Open Air Education.
(a) Playground Classes.
Opportunity is taken, weather permitting, of holding classes
in the playgrounds, and physical exercises are taken in the openair
whenever possible.
Some schools hold classes during the warmer months in the
open-air on the flat roofs available, and certain schools hold
classes in the neighbouring parks and recreation grounds.
(b) Open-Air Classrooms.
In three of the most modern schools in the Borough, viz.
Tollgate, Pretoria Road and the re-constructed South Hallsville
School, special provision has been made for open-air classrooms.
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