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of the drainage and sanitary arrangements was in a defective
condition, that the wash house was dilapidated and the ironing
room without any ventilation. Notice was served by order of
the Committee and these matters attended to.
December 3rd.
The Chief Sanitary Inspector reported having inspected the
w.c.'s and urinals of Battersea Park Road Board Schools,from which
offensive smells were alleged by residents in Warriner Gardens to
arise. He found that the walls of the w.c.'s bore evidence of
being used by the boys as a urinal, also that the latter were not
provided with sparge pipes for the purpose of flushing and
advised that the London School Board's attention be drawn to
the necessity of providing the latter, and imperviously rendering
the walls of the w.c.'s also to slope the entrance to urinals to
properly trapped gulley instead of into playground.
The School Board for London in reply stated their inability to
provide sparge pipes and asked the Sanitary Committee to waive
their requirements. This however, the Committee have not
done, being of opinion that where urinals are used by a large
number of persons, the walls should be flushed by means of
sparge pipes similar to those the London School Board have
provided to other of their Schools in the parish.
It was also reported that Inspector Odell seized late at night
on the 22nd November, about 250 bananas exposed for sale
upon a stall in St. John Road, which were in his opinion unfit
for human consumption and that the same were condemned by
the Magistrate at the South Western Police Court.
Proceedings were subsequently taken against the owner
who was fined.
December 31st.
The Chief Inspector reported that he had seized on
Saturday Night the 21st December, about 10.30 o'clock, 1½ cwt
of cob nuts which were exposed for sale upon a barrow in
Falcon Road and in the sale of which the vendor was doing a
brisk trade at 2d. per pint, that the nuts were subsequently