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Schools.—In addition to the large number of academic institutions
in Westminster there are 29 elementary and 4 secondary schools either
wholly or partly under the control and management of the London County
Council. The Burlington School for Girls, Boyle Street, moved to a new
building at Hammersmith during 1937. The site is in course of development
for business purposes.
As regards infectious disease in schools, there is close contact between
the officers of the Sanitary Authority and those of the Education Authority.
The former bring at once to the notice of the latter anything in the nature
of even a minor outbreak at a school which the school medical officers can
investigate at the earliest opportunity.
The Council's sanitary inspectors are required to visit schools to
inform head teachers personally after inspecting homes from which school
children, suffering from notifiable infectious disease, have been removed
to hospital, and also to acquaint the teachers as to home contacts attending
the same school. This is in addition to the written intimation from
the Medical Officer of Health to the head teacher as required by law.
At the following educational establishments, additions or improvements
were made to the sanitary arrangements during the year:—
London School of Economics,
Houghton Street.
St. Margaret's School, Dean Farrar
Street.
St. Barnabas School, Pimlico
Road.
St. Martin's School of Art, Charing
Cross Road (rebuilding).
Warwick Junior School, Ranelagh Road.
Rat Repression.—During the year 153 complaints were received and
investigated, 479 inspections being made by the sanitary inspectors.
The Council's rat officer visited premises for the purpose of investigation
and to advise owners and occupiers in remedial and preventive measures.
These complaints mainly arose in proximity to buildings demolished
or in course of demolition, e.g., Adelphi Terrace. Rehousing had become
an urgent necessity for the rat whose house was being pulled down about
his ears. His new landlord found him an undesirable tenant, hence the
complaint.
The City Engineer's staff examined the sewer connections of some 135
premises ; 26 were found to be defective and notices requiring repair or
renewal were served upon the persons responsible. A number of disused
"eyes" to the sewers received attention as a result of those examinations,
and ten sections of sewers or connections were treated with "Taboo''
gas, lethal to rats.