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4. The classrooms should consist merely of a smooth
impervious floor, with a roof supported by uprights at
suitable intervals, without sides. They should be sufficiently
large to permit of the desks being at such a distance from
the edge of the floor that they will not get wet.
5. The desks should be single.
6. Accommodation must be provided for a caretaker
and his wife, with a kitchen sufficiently large to cook for
the 40 children.
7. The dining room should be of the same character
as the classrooms.
8. Baths should be provided.
9. Each child should have the following numbered
articles :—A washable bag, containing brush and comb,
tooth brush, hand towel, bath towel, a deck chair, blanket
and rain cape,
10. Two teachers would be required and both should
have special knowledge of nature study, hygiene and
physical exercises.
11. The cost of meals provided should be recovered
from the parents.
12. A Health Visitor should visit the school regularly,
and the School Medical Officer as required."
In considering the cost of an open-air school, it is important
to remember that special grants are made amounting to £7 per
child, and that the construction of a Doecker building would be
inexpensive.
This school would also be of benefit to children who suffer
from such conditions as Anaemia, Mal-nutrition, Enlarged and
Tubercular Glands, Heart Disease, Chorea, Spinal Curvature,
Paralysis, etc. It has been found, as a result of experience, that
children who have been in attendance at an opeu-air school after
several months are frequently able to return to the ordinary day
school equal in intelligence to other scholars of their age.