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B.— Washing and Wiping.
Weekly—The surfaces of the furniture, fixtures and ledges (including
window cills), lower walls and floors, after preliminary dusting and sweeping.
C.—Rubbing down and Polishing.
Quarterly -Rubbing down the upper walls and cornices, and polishing with
turpentine or other approved material, the surfaces of unpainted woodwork
and metal.
Provisions may also be added to the table as required for paraffining or
waxing wood floors at intervals, periodically applying any substances to the
floors, dadoes, and furniture, and otherwise rendering the table comprehensive
and comprehensible by the addition of details as to precautions and procedure.
Your Public Health Committee were on several further occasions in communication
with the Education Department of the London County Council
with regard to the necessity for more efficient cleaning of school premises in
the Borough, and in April they received from the Education Officer a copy of
a revised scheme for the cleaning of Public Elementary Schools and Centres,
and the County Council's decisions thereon. This was reported to your
Council on 22nd April, 1912.
The Education Officer stated in his letter that the decisions of the County
Council were the outcome of a full investigation and prolonged consideration of
the position and duties of school-keepers, and of the arrangements hitherto in
force for the cleaning of schools and centres. The chief object of the new
scheme is to raise the standard of cleanliness of the schools by allowing a
considerably augmented staff of women cleaners, by providing materials instead
of making payments to school-keepers for the purchase thereof, and by
systematic inspection of the condition of cleanliness of each school. It is
estimated that an additional sum of about £13,000 a year will be spent in
wages of charwomen, and it may be said that, generally speaking, each school
will have allowed to it between 14 and 17 hours per week additional assistance
by cleaners. A further important provision in the scheme is that when school
buildings are used for purposes other than day school purposes the County
Council will employ additional assistance necessary for the extra cleaning
involved. All rooms are swept and dusted daily in respect of their use for day
school purposes, and again in respect of their use in the evenings. The
general rule with regard to the scrubbing in force is that every room must be
scrubbed once in three weeks, and babies' rooms in infants' departments once
each week.
§ 5.—FACTORIES AND WORKSHOPS.
Factories.—The Men Inspectors had 409 and the Women Inspectors 107
factories upon the Registers for periodical inspection as to water service,
sanitary conveniences, drainage, and nuisances. During the year 88 and 2
inspections of factories respectively were made, and 32 and 5 re-inspections
after notices served.