Medical Officer's annual report [to] Durban Corporation.

  • Durban (South Africa). Public Health Department.
Date:
[1911]
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Credit: Medical Officer's annual report [to] Durban Corporation. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    7 Buhver Road School, with accommodation for 400 boys, girls, and infants, was opened in 1910; Addington School had its accommodation increased from 250 to 400 pupils in 1910; in 1911 Mansfield Road School was opened, providing accom¬ modation for 500 boys; Stamford Hill School, with accommodation for 400 boys, girls and infants; and a temporary building used as an Infant School in Umbilo Road, providing for 140 infants. It is anticipated that in 1912, the Stellawood School will be opened, which will immediately accommodate 250 mixed pupils, and when completed 400. There are also arrangements in hand for other schools to be erected, which will probably be opened in 1912 or 1913. They include an Infants’ School at the corner of Frere and McDonald Roads, capable of accommodating 400 infants; a Preparatory School for Boys at Gordon Road; and a large Infants’ School at Addington, and a similar one in Stamford Hill district. It will thus be seen that Durban is in a fair way of being provided with good, adequate, and up-to-date school accommodation. With all this additional school accommodation, the only school premises thrown into disuse has been the rear block of the Boys’ Model School, Smith Street, the ground on which it stood being required for part of the site of the new Law Courts. At the time of closure it was used for coloured scholars. Extensive alterations are to be made to the Albert Street School, particular attention being directed to light and ventilation. After the alterations are carried out it will be occupied by the coloured children of the Borough. The number of pupils attending Government and Government- aided schools in the Borough of Durban on 31st March, 1911, was as follows: — Government. Government Aided. Total. European . 3,833 1,618 5,451 Coloured. 234 318 552 Indian . 409 333 742 Totals. 4,476 2,269 6,745 Approximate number of European children attending private schools—900. MEDICAL INSPEC1 ION OF SCHOLARS. During the past few years a movement in every civilised country has been in process for directing attention to all that makes for the health and efficiency of the human race, and more particularly “ to the formation of good citizenship in healthy infancy and sound school life.”