[Report 1930] / Medical Officer of Health, Darlington County Borough.
- Darlington (England). County Borough Council.
- Date:
- 1930
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1930] / Medical Officer of Health, Darlington County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Organised games eontiinie to be a regular feature of sehool Avork in all Senior and several Junior Departments. The ])laying fields available, apart from separate playing fields for the Grammar ..Sehool and Girls’ High Sehool, are: Haughton Hoad, Hollyhurst Road, playing held adjoining Alderman Leaeh Couneil Sehool, Publie Parks. Additional faeilities are being }n’o\ided as follows:— Playing held in Salters Lane, witl\ pavilion, for the Central Seeondary Sehool. Plaving held adjoining the Salters Lane Sehool, with pavilion, for the North Road Senior Girls’ Sehool. A ])lot of land at Hundens eontaining about 10.7 aeres has been alloeated by the Couneil for playing fields for Elementary Sehool children. The lease of the Haughton Road jilaying held will expire shortly. A plot of land containing 3,086 sq. yds. behind Freeman’s Place is being jirejiared as a jilaygroimd for children under 11 years of age. The old pavilion on the Grammar Sehool playing held is being transferred to the ])laying held adjoining the Alderman Leaeh School. Co-operation continues with the Schools’ Atliletic Associa- tion, who arrange leagues and competitions in football, cricket, net ball, athletic sports and swimming. Swimming instruction was continued during the summer season, the same teaching staff being em))loyed as in the last few years, viz., two men and two women ))art-time instructors, assisted by the teachers wlio accompany the classes. The scholars attend in grou):)s of 60 once a week, and certificates are awarded to those wlio swim one or live lengths of the Paths (33^ or 166| yds.). The arrangements enable 600 boys and 550 girls to be dealt with each week. Tests for (piarter-milc and half-mile -nertiheates are carried out, for boys, by the Darlington Amateur Swimming Club, and for girls b}' the Darlington Ladies’ Swimming ‘Club. The folloAviiig is a summary of eertifieates issued:— Roys, one length ... 142 Roys, five lengths 47 Girls, ,, ... 107 Girls, 34 210 81 Swimming Club Certificates :— Boys, half-mile ... 18 Roys, quarter-mile ... 34 Girls, ,, 8 23](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29149125_0135.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
