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School Medical Officer 24
Children's Welfare Centre 18
Health Visitors 15
Transfers from Hospitals 15
London County Council 8
Invalid Children's Aid Association 6
Other Dispensaries 4
Medical Officer of Health 3
Infant Life Protection Visitor 2
British Red Cross Society 1
Charity Organisation Society 2
Wandsworth Union 2
Other Patients 2
Other sources 20
Labour Exchange 1
Day Sanatorium or Open-Air School.
The open-air school at Springwell House, Clapham Common
North Side, receives a large number of children daily, the larger
proportion (about 60 per cent.) being Battersea children. The
school is housed in a large converted mansion, with a fine garden at
the rear, where the children receive instruction, except in bad
weather, in the open air. The school is under the administrative
control of the London County Council, but with the consent of the
Borough Council, the services of the Tuberculosis Officer (Dr. Macdonald)
and one of the Dispensary nurses are being utilised by the
County Council in medically supervising the children, the former to
the extent of one half-day a week, and the latter as to three-fourths
of her time, for which the County Council contribute part of these
officers' salaries. The Institution is doing very useful work, the
education of the children being carried on under the most favourable
conditions for their recovery, and almost continuously in the open
air, and suitable nourishing meals being provided at the school.
The Tuberculosis Officer reports the following work carried
out at the Institution during 1922:—
Statistics for 1922.
Number on Roll, 31st December, 1922 149
admitted during 1922 48
,, discharged during 1922 49
Reasons for discharge:—
(a) Number fit for elementary work 13
(b) „ fit for work 28
(c) ,, transferred to Hospital or
torium 7
(id) ,, removed from district 1
(e) ,, transferred to Special School —
(/) „ discharged for other reasons —