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SWEEPING OF SCHOOL PREMISES, CLEANSING WALLS, Etc.,
VENTILATION, Etc.
Instuctions to school,keepers.
Attention is drawn to the necessity for exercising the utmost care in order
to reduce to a minimum the danger to health arising from dust in the school
premises. Schoolkeepers are accordingly specially directed to observe the
undermentioned instructions:—
(a) Ventilating inlets and Tobin tubes must be swept, and the internal
walls and grates freed from all dirt and dust once a month. The door
at the foot must be used for the purpose, and kept locked at all
other times.
(b) All mats must be thoroughly scraped, brushed, and cleaned, and the
space below the scrapers must be cleaned out retry nigh'.
(c) Under 110 circumstances whatever is dry sweeping or dusting in school
buildings allowed. W herever possible, damp saw-dust must be used
in sweeping the floors. Where saw-dust cannot be obtained, or in
those portions of the classrooms occupied by dual desks, where it may
not be possible to make use of damp saw-dust, the floor should be
sprinkled with clean water before sweeping.
(d) While the sweeping is actually being done, whether in the evening
or on Saturdays, all windows and ventilators must be kept wide open.
They must be kept open until all signs of dust have disappeared and the
air is quite sweet and fresh. The windows must then be closed, and
the surfaces of the desks, tables, seats, chairs, and window cills wiped
over with a clean damp cloth to remove deposited dust and dirt.
(e) The tops of all cupboards and ledges must be thoroughly freed from
dust at least once in every three weeks before the floors are scrubbed.
(f) The walls and cornices must be swept with the Turk's head broom
(which is supplied) at often as may be necessarv to keep them thoroughly
clean ; the painted dadoes on the walls must be kept well brushed
and dusted, and also the glazed brickwork which is above the dado
height on the walls of staircases and landings, and which is within
reach without the use of ladders. Once a year all the dadoes and
glazed br.ckwork must be rubbed over and cleansed with a cloth well
moistened with turpentine or other approved material (which will be
supplied on application at the Clerk of Works Office), one third
of the school to be done during each of the Easter, Midsummer, and
Christmas school holidays.
Schoolkeepers are to note that these instructions apply to the whole of the
premises for the cleaning of which they are hold responsible, including all
centres, schools for blind, deaf, and defective children, offices, &c., as well as to
the ordinary school buildings, except in Plenum ventilated schools, where the
opening of windows and the cleansing of Tobin's tubes do not apply.