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In future the requirements of the London Building Act, 1894, will also be
made part of the requirements for houses constructed in separate dwellings.
SCHOOLS.
Infectious disease, and more especially diphtheria, may readily spread in
schools. In many outbreaks of diphtheria it has been found that the lowered
state of health and the resultant abnormal condition of children's throats has
been the predisposing, if not the exciting, cause of the spread of the disease.
The improved sanitary condition of schools is therefore of material importance
in lessening the prevalence of diphtheria. With this object the View Committee
of the Health Committee of your Vestry has visited a number of
schools and obtained the amelioration of the conditions under which the
scholars are placed. During the year the following schools were visited :—
Allcroft Road.—William Ellis Endowed School.
Brookfield. —Saint Anne's National School.
Burghley Road.—Board School.
Carlton Road.—Board School.
Falkland Road.—Wesleyan School.
Fortess Road.— The School of the Church of Our Lady Help of
Christians.
Holmes Road.—Board School.
Lupton Street.—Liddon Memorial School.
Maiden Road.—Saint Andrew's National Schools.
Southampton Road.—Saint Dominic's Priory School.
Wilkin Street.—Middle Class Training School for Children.
York Rise.—Saint Mary's School.
Camden Street.—Infant and National Schools.
Great College Street.—Board School.
Islip Street.—National Schools.
Kentish Town Road.—British Schools.
King Street.—Board School.
Medburn Street.—Board School.
York Road.—Board School.
It cannot be too strongly impressed upon school-teachers how necessary it
is to prevent children from licking the slates and sponges, and to cause them
to rinse the drinking cups before using, and not to use the handkerchiefs of
other children.
WORKSHOPS.
Workshops, Proper.—Whenever complaints have been received from ratepayers
and others, or notices have been received from the Inspectors of
Factories with regard to workshops, they have been inspected and the
necessary measures have been taken.
Bakehouses.—The improvement and regulation of Bakehouses has formed
a topic of discussion in most of the Metropolitan Vestries, the result being
that in October last a Conference was convened by the Vestry of St. George-