§ MR. YOXALL (Nottingham, W.)To ask the President of the Board of Education with regard to the overcrowding in West Ham public elementary schools, whether the regulations by the Board of Education allow as many as 100 children to be placed in a class-room only accommodating sixty, even for a single day.
(Answered by Mr. McKenna.) Article 19 of the Code provides that—" The number of scholars in average attendance must not exceed the recognised accommodation, and no room may be habitually used for a larger number of scholars than that for which it is passed by the Board.'' It is obviously undesirable that over crowding should exist in any class-room, even for a single day, but I fear it would be impossible for the Board of Education to lay down any hard and fast rule as to the maximum number of children who may in any conceivable circumstances be taught in any one room for a single day.