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within a short 'bus ride of East Ham, and, with the greatest
courtesy and kindness (up till the present date no case has been
refused treatment, and I regret that the Local Education
Authority have not considered favourably a request for financial
assistance from the Hospital Authorities), over 20 children, suffering-
from various forms of spinal curvature, infantile paralysis and
deformities of the lower limbs, and referred from the School
Medical Service, have been, and are being-, treated ; such treatment
involving, in many cases, tri-weekly visits and, in other
cases, operations and in-patient treatment. I, and my medical
staff, are glad of this opportunity of recording our gratitude and
thanks to the Hospital management.
During the year the Education Committee made grants
towards the cost of 13 appliances for the use of cripple children,
the total cost being ;£33 3s. fid., of which the Committee contributed
/.T4 16s. 6d.
9. OPEN-AIR EDUCATION.
(In a few cases playground classes continue to be held
occasionally.
(6) School Camps.
No School Camps were held during the year 1923
(c) Open-Air Classrooms In Public Elementary Schools.
None of the classrooms in the schools of the Borough have
been constructed on the open-air principle.
(d) Day Open-Air Schools.
There are unfortunately no open-air schools in the Borough.
The provision of a day open-air school, erected on a suitable
site within the Borough, would tend markedly towards reducing
the number of definitely physically defective children, with the result
that, at no distant date, the present serious need for a large
number of places in a Physically Defective Centre and a Residential
Open-air School would be less urgent.