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Leyton 1933

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Leyton]

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The clocks are synchronised and worked from a trickle charged
battery; this also supplies energy for the fire bells, which are rung
simultaneously from any floor.
The central heating boilers and domestic hot water boiler are
oil-fired, with automatic controls.
The playgrounds are covered with tar paving, but provision
has been made for flower beds the length of the building and at the
west end.
Knotts Green Special School.—Closing in end and one
side of rest shed.
Davies Lane Junior Mixed School and Infants.—Replacement
of lavatory basins, by washing trough and spray taps.
Ruckholt Central School.—Composition flooring to corridors
to replace worn out floor.
Newport Road School.—Forming a medical inspection room
and waiting room adjoining.
Newport Road School, Senior Boys.—Replacing wash basins
with washing troughs.
Capworth Street School.—Additional w.c.'s for Girls,
with modern apparatus.
School Painting.—Four schools painted and redecorated
internally. Three schools decorated externally.
Re-desking.—Various schools.
MEDICAL INSPECTION.
A.—Routine Medical Inspections.
Code Group Inspection.—These medical inspections are
carried out on the school premises for the purpose of making a
report on each child on the lines of the approved Schedule set out