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The Sanitary Inspectors have paid monthly visits to the
various elementary schools in the Borough and a total of 387 visits
have been made during the year. By means of these inspections
a considerable number of sanitary defects have been located and
remedied.
The replacement of the trough closets at Barkingside School
(Boys and Girls) by modern pedestal pans with separate flushing
cisterns has not yet been carried out. At Highlands and Loxford
Schools (with the exception of two separate pedestals in each
School) sets of syphonic latrine type of W.C.'s with separate pans
set over a trough and trapped on outlet with automatic flush are
still in existence, and these should be replaced with separate
pedestal W.C. pans and traps with separate flushing cisterns.
During the year the old pattern of trough closets at the Ilford
R.C. School, Downshall and Newbury Park Schools, have been
replaced with separate W.C.s of pedestal type, with separate
flushing cisterns.
The old type of drinking fountain is still in existence at the
following schools:—Highlands (Girls and Infants, 1); Gearies
(Upper Boys, 1; Middle Boys, 1); SS. Peter and Paul (Boys, 1;
Girls and Junior, 1): Mossford.
The new type of "Hygienic Spa" fountain has been fixed at
the following schools during the year:—Uphall (3), Highlands (4),
Benton Open Air (2), Goodmayes (6), Gearies (5), Becontree (9),
Newbury Park (5), Downshall (4), Gordon (2), Mayesbrook (2),
Fairlop (2), South Park (9), Chadwell (2), Little Heath (2),
Loxford (4), Valentines (2), Christchurch (5), and Beal Modern (6)