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North Road Council School.
During the year a new Council School accommodating
500 Senior and 500 Junior Children was opened. It is fitted
with a school clinic at which eyes, teeth and small ailments
will be dealt with. In connection with the Junior
Department an open-air class room has also been provided.
A special feature has been made of cross ventilation and
lighting, and the windows are so geared that practically the
whole of one side of a class room can be thrown open to the
air. At this school children are only admitted on one day in
the week, when the School Nurse is in attendance; this has
resulted in a marked effect upon the cleanliness and general
condition of the children.
Sanitation of the School Premises.
Practically all the recommendations made in my last,
report have been carried into effect.
The sanitation and hygiene of the school premises is kept
up to a high standard in all the "Provided" schools, and
so far as the structure will allow, every effort is made to
bring the older "Non-Provided" schools up to as high a pitch
as is possible. No serious defect exists upon any of the school
premises, and what improvements are necessary are usually
concerned with better provision for ventilatiou or warming.
Ventilation and Warming.
I do not think it necessary to add much to my general
remarks upon these matters made in last year's report.
Wherever possible efforts have been made to secure through
ventilation of the class-rooms, and to improve existing means
of ventilation in all the school premises. I find that most, of
the teachers are very anxious to keep the air of the class-rooms
as pure as possible, and in the few cases where I have expressed
dissatisfaction with the condition of the atmosphere
it has been due to some defect in warming, which it has been
attempted to remedy at the expense of ventilation.