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CO-ORDINATION.
Arrangements for the co-ordination of the work of the School
Medical Service with that of other Health Services.
There are 110 alterations under this heading. The same conditions
prevail to-day as outlined in the report for 1935.
THE SCHOOL MEDICAL SERVICE IN RELATION TO
PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS.
School Hygiene.—-I am indebted to your Committee's Surveyor for
the following schedule of repairs, alterations and improvements to schools
during 1936. It will be observed that effective measures are being
employed to modernise—so far as that is practicable—the older schools.
Belmont School.
Modernisation and improvement works, comprising new ranges of
children's offices, wash bowls with hot and cold water supplies,
heated clothes racks, and the provision of Nursery Classrooms,
etc. Installation of electric lighting. Removal of stoppings
(nine rooms) and forming level floors. Provision of exhibition
panels and sliding blackboards (five rooms). Provision of 120
tables and 240 chairs.
Bruce Grove School.
Removal of steppings and forming level floors in one classroom, and
the provision of exhibition panelling and sliding blackboards.
Provision of 40 tables and 80 chairs. External re-decorations.
Installation of six modern bubble-jet drinking fountains.
Coleraine Park School.
Removal of steppings and forming level floors in two classrooms.
Installation of six modern drinking fountains.
Crowland School.
Installation of electric lighting. Installation of modern drinking
fountains.
Culvert School.
Installation of six modern drinking fountains. Removal of steppings
and forming level floors in five classrooms. Provision of
60 tables and 120 chairs. Relaying of corridor floor in Infants'
Department.