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Croydon 1920

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]

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(c) School Hygiene.
The following is a statement of the sanitary work carried out
during the year:—
All the schools were visited periodically and the undermentioned
work was carried out: —
Central Polytechnic, Scarbrook Hill.
Drains laid in for waste water from two huts erected in yard
Parish Church Schools.
Rainwater pipes renewed where defective. Water supply to
girls' offices increased.
Girls' High School, JVellesley Road.
Drains from two W.C.'s relaid.
Ventilation pipe of drain cleared and repaired.
Woodside Schools.
New iron buildings—gullies for waste from lavatory basins
connected to inspection chambers on existing system.
Infant Boys' - trough W.C. of three divisions taken out and
replaced with short hopper pans with separate flushing
cisterns, connected to existing branch drain.
Public ventilation pipe reinstated.
Oval Road Schools.
New drains and W C.'s for infants.
Tavistock Grove School.
Rainwater pipes unstopped.
St. Andrew's Boys' School.
Doors and seats of W.C.'s repaired.
Obstruction removed from ventilation pipe.
Princess Road Schools.
Front section receiving waste from lavatory basins relaid with
manhole and ventilation.
Main soil section repaired where defective.
Lavatory basins wrongly connected with surface water drains
transferred to soil sections.
Syphon trapped gullies provided to yard drain.
Ventilation pipes cleared.
The Crescent Schools.
Drains from fittings in temporary buildings at rear dis.
connected.