[Report 1932] / Medical Officer of Health, Ilkeston Borough.

  • Ilkeston (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1932
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Credit: [Report 1932] / Medical Officer of Health, Ilkeston Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    with the breast stroke. Twenty-eight 1st class certificates were given to those children who could swim 50 yards with the breast stroke and 54 yards on the back. While twenty-one 2nd class certificates were given to children who could swim 40 yards with the breast stroke and 20 yards on the back. Dancing.—Action songs and simple dances are learnt by the smaller children. The senior children, both boys and girls, are taught folk-dancing. XI.-PROVISION OF MEALS. For those children who are recommended by teachers and con- firmed by the school medical officer as suffering from malnutrition which is such as to prevent them from deriving full benefit from the instruction given in the schools, a feeding centre is established at the cookery school situated at Gladstone School in the centre of the town. The medical officer also selects cases of malnutrition whom he may find either during medical inspection or from those referred to him at the clinic and recommends their attendance at the feeding centre. Two meals are given a day, namely, breakfast and dinner, and the centre is open to all through the holidays, but not on Sundays. The average daily attendance was 39, and the number of individual children for whom meals were provided was 64. The average cost per meal was 4d. when all expenses, including the cost of con- veyance, were taken into account, though the average cost per meal for food only, was 1.82 pence. The tram fares of children who attend from a distance are paid by the Authority. It will be seen that the number of scholars who attend the feeding centre is tending to increase and this is all to the good for the cost is small in comparison to the great benefits which the children derive. The food is wholesome and well cooked and the menu is supervised by the school medical officer. XII.—SCHOOL BATHS. Only one school, the new senior Cavendish School, possesses a bath, which is fairly well patronised by the pupils of both sexes. The arrangements for bathing are carried out under the supervision of the head teachers.
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