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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Edmonton 1914
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Edmonton]
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H. —Provided. Seven schools: twenty-six departments.
| Name. | Built. | Departments. | Last Enlarged. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Brettenham Road, Upper Edmonton | 1882 | B.G.I. | .. | 1892 |
| 2. Croyland Road, Lower Edmonton | 1884 | B.G.J.I. | I Hall | 1901 |
| 3. Raynham Road, Upper Edmonton | 1896 | 4 Halls | 1902 | |
| 4. Eldon Road, Lower Edmonton | 1899 | 4 „ | ||
| 5. Silver Street, Upper Edmonton | 1901 | B.G.I. | 3 „ | |
| 6. Houndsfield Road, Lower Edmonton | 1903 | B.G.J.I. | *i ,, | |
| 7. Montagu Road, Upper Edmonton | 1904 | *i „ | ||
| B.—Boys. G.—Girls. I.—Infants. J.—Junior Mixed. * Extra wide corridors in some of the Departments. fBoth these halls are in the Infants' Departments. in the Junior Mixed Department. | ||||
BUSH HILL PARK. The rapid development of this northern part
of the district necessitated an agreement with the Enfield Urban District
Council to provide accommodation for 81 scholars from this neighbourhood at
the nearest Enfield School, but there was an average attendance of 284 this
year. This agreement was sealed in October, 1906. No Edmonton scholars
under five years of age are now admitted.
BATHS. The elder children are taken from the Schools to learn
swimming once a week in the summer months. During the past winter,
1914-1915, this wholesome practice has been continued as far as the boys are
concerned. A woman instructress has been appointed for the girls for the
boys are taught by their class teachers.
Building Operations.-interior Houndfield Road School has
been redecorated, the walls and cellars distempered. Otherwise nothing has
been done beyond the ordinary repairs necessary to keep the buildings in good
order.
Closets are in some cases of the trough pattern, with a weir at the lower
end, and a tank of sixty gallons and upwards at the upper end of the system,
which the caretaker can discharge four times daily, and oftener in the summer
months. Others have the same kind of tank, flushing a system of separate
closet pans with syphonic action opening into a common pipe. The excreta
then falls through a trapped pipe into an adjacent inspection-chamber, and so
to the road sewer. In all these cases there is a man-hole chamber at the end
of the main drain with a fresh-air inlet, and an intercepting trap with raking
arm between the chamber and the road sewer.