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IX. Infectious diseases.
X. Open-air education.
XI. Physical training.
XII. Provision of meals.
XIII. Co-operation of parents, teachers, school
ance officers and public bodies.
XIV. Blind, deaf, defective and epileptic children.
XV. Higher education for defective students.
XVI. Nursery schools.
XVII. Secondary schools and other institutions of
higher education.
XVIII. Parents' payments.
XIX. Miscellaneous.
I. SCHOOL POPULATION.
The number of children on the elementary school registers
on 31st December, 1937, was 41,571, as compared with 43,970 on
31st December, 1936. These children, together with children who
attended institutions for higher education and special schools,
were distributed as in Table I.
The average attendance of children at elementary schools
for the year ending March 31st, 1937, was 36,082. This figure
does not include attendances at open-air, nursery, and special
schools maintained by the Authority.
The estimates of the "school population" of elementary
schools at each year since 1920 are set out in Table II, together
with the percentage increase or decrease each year, calculated on
the population for the previous year.
The estimates for the school population at each year are
those given by the Chief Medical Officer of the Board of Education
in his annual reports.
It will be seen that the school population has been falling
steadily since 1922, and that in recent years there has been an
acceleration of the rate of decrease. The total decrease since
1922 has been equivalent to 16,930 school children, which gives
an average annual decrease of 1,129 on 1922 figures.
II. STAFF.
The staff is set out on pages 12 to 17 of this report.
Apart from my appointment as School Medical Officer, there have
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