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Disposal of the Dead.
The following are the cemeteries in the district at present used:
(1) Dagenham Parish Church Yard ; size approximately
2 acres.
(2) New Bccontrec Cemetery; owned by the United
Cemeteries, Ltd., approximately 21 acres.
The Local Authority scheduled, under the Dagenham Act,
two portions of land for this purpose, the first a site of approximately
26 acres at Rose Lane, Chadwcll Heath, and the other a
site of approximately 30 acrcs at East brook End.
Schools.
There are 23 schools in this district., run as 51 separate departments.
Of these, 15 have been crcctcd sincc the development
of the Bccontrec Estate. They were crcctcd on the assumption
that the requirements would bo 1.5 school places per house. This
number was found insufficient and it is proposed that eight of
these schools should be extended; three, namely, Five Elms,
Halbutt Street and South Wood Lane, to give additional accommodation
for 450 children and five others, additional accommodation
for 300 each, these being Arnold Road, Bccontrec Avenue,
Finnymore Road, Charlecote and Alibon Road.
The newer schools arc well designed, well ventilated and fitted
with sufficient water supply and suitable sanitary conveniences.
The condition of some of the older schools is not so satisfactory.
Some are overcrowded and because of the older type of
structure and deficient heating arc not well ventilated.
Schools have played a very small part in the disseminationnl
Infectious Diseases. No school has been closcd on this account,
nor have any been disinfected. In the newer type of school,
efficient ventilation and sufficient Moor space per child, the notifiable
diseases do not appear to spread to any extent. During the
year, the only definite instances of school infect ion in the new
buildings were some cases of Smallpox, where the school appeared
possibly the place of infection. In the ease of the older schoolc
buildings, conditions arc not the same. Attendance at t
schools definitely was the source of infection in a number of case
instances appearing during the year of infection by this source
cases of Smallpox and Diphtheria.