[Report 1937] / School Medical Officer of Health, Leeds City.

  • Leeds (England). City Council.
Date:
1937
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Credit: [Report 1937] / School Medical Officer of Health, Leeds City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    F. OTHER ACTIVITIES. Plav Centres. No addition Inis been made to the number ol Play Centres, namely six :— Park Pane Beckett Street Isles Pane Pow Road Organised bv the Education Committee. Hunslet Pane ) Organised by the Yorkshire Ladies’ Council Woodhonse .. ) of Education. It will be a matter of satisfaction to all concerned that during the winter evenings more than 2,000 children are accommodated, three evenings a week, in the Evening Play Centres where under healthy conditions and in happy circumstances they are enabled to spend a profitable time. In most cases the absence of Play Centres would mean that the children would be playing in the streets with the attendant moral and physical dangers. In considering the numbers in attendance it should be remembered that no compulsion whatever can be exercised and that the only spur to regular attendance in the interest and enjoyment of the children. Childrens Day.—As in previous years this Department, in co-operation with the Leeds Elementary Schools Athletic Associa¬ tion, arranged a series of displays in Physical Training and Dancing on the Arena at Roundhay Park on Saturday, 26th June. The programme included :— Assembly of 3,000 Display Children round the arena for the Crowning of the Queen of Children’s Day. Creek Dancing by 160 girls. Massed Physical Training with apparatus by 504 girls. Massed English Country Dancing by 640 girls. Massed Physical Training by i,5b<S Senior boys and girls. The programme concluded with a Grand March of Display children round the arena. I he Display programme, which occupied three and a half hours, w.is carried through in glorious weather and before an appreciative record crowd of 61,000. I he red, white and blue colour scheme in the Physical I raining Displays gave added eltect to this children’s festival in Coronation Year.