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the only means of ventilation. There is another cloakroom situated
on the playground side of the building. The lavatory basins are
placed in a separate room.
There is a large playground, part of which is asphalted.
The sanitary conveniences are situated in the playground and
consist of a separate compartment for the teachers, 2 compartments
for the girls and 2 compartments with an urinal measuring 4 linear
feet for the boys.
The closets are of an old-fashioned trough variety, and the
method of flushing is of a primitive kind. The cistern is situated in
the school and placed in the passage between the main room and the
lavatory. From the cistern the pipe is carried through the wall into
one of the classrooms ; it passes along the side of the classroom and
then through the wall into the open air. The pipe is carried across
a portion of the playground into the cistern which supplies the urinal
and into the closet. In one of the classrooms is a turncock which
regulates the flow of water into the closets. The lower end of the
trough is stopped by a ball valve arrangement, which has to be
raised by hand when the trough is emptied.
Some of the rain water pipes empty directly into the drain.
ST. MARY'S.
This School is situated in Oldham's Terrace and consists of 3
departments—Infants', Girls' and Boys'. There are two separate
buildings, the one in which the Infants, department is housed being
about 90 yards distant from the other. The School is the oldest in
Acton; the present Infants School was erected in 1837, and the
Boys' and Girls' School in 1862.
The Infants' department is a one storey building and consists of a
main room and two classrooms with cloakroom and lavatory
accommodation. The school has no central hall or corridor, and the
main room and one of the classrooms are entered into directly from
the playground. The entrance to the other classrooms is through
the cloakroom and through the main room.
The main room is partitioned off by glass sliding doors intp
two classrooms—A and B.