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Lane School doubled its accommodation, now running in two
departments. The only new school was the Stanburn Temporary,
with accommodation for 200, this bringing the number of schools
in the district to 22 and the number of departments to 39. The
following summarises the position as regards school accommodation :
Position at end of
January, 1936. March, 1937. Increase.
Accommodation ... 14,238 14,794 556
Temporary accommodation 1,634 2,320 686
Number on roll ... 15,154 17,031 1,877
School attendance has played no part in the spread of the
notifiable infections. The extent to which the non-notifiable
diseases affected schools is referred to in non-notifiable diseases.
No schools were closed during the year on the action of the Sanitary
Authority and no premises disinfected.
SANITARY INSPECTION OF DISTRICT.
(a) Number of Inspections of :—
Houses—First visits ... 2,465
Revisits ... 7,507
Housing Surveys ... 3,816
Bakehouses ... 96
Slaughterhouses ... 1,038
Milkshops and Dairies ... 391
Cowsheds ... 78
Foodshops ... 1,001
Foster Mothers premises ... 46
Out Workers premises ... 67
Ice Cream premises ... 40
Caravans ... 74
Infectious Disease enquiries ... 12
Smoke observations ... 45
Number of nuisances investigated ... 1,433
Periodical visits ... 881
(b) Notices served. No. complied with.
Statutory ... 47 ... 45
Informal ... 1,138 ... 1,103
SMOKE ABATEMENT.
Under the provision of Section 2 of the Public Health (Smoke
Abatement) Act, 1926, the Council, during the year, made a byelaw
prescribing that "The emission of black smoke for a period of two
minutes in the aggregate within any continuous period of thirty
minutes from any one chimney in a building other than a private
dwelling house shall until the contrary is proved be presumed to be
a nuisance." The bye-law is dated the 8th January, was confirmed
by the Minister of Health on the 20th February, and came into
operation on the 1st April.