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when the removal of these galleries is undertaken on a more comprehensive
scale.
Ceilings.—Defective ceilings have been replaced in forty rooms
at three schools with fibre boards which also act as insulators and
acoustic corrective agents.
Floors.—The wood block floors at eleven schools have been
repaired and resurfaced.
Heating.—Extensive additions and alterations to heating
apparatus have been carried out at seventeen schools, including
the provision of two new boilers. Electric or gas cookers have
been provided at six schools, and new fire grates at three schools.
Ventilation.—Two kitchens and one classroom have been fitted
with improved apparatus.
Artificial Lighting.—Improvements have been effected at
twenty-one schools.
Sanitation.—New lavatory basins have been provided at three
schools; new sinks at three schools; improved hot water supplies
at three schools, and new flushing tanks to one school.
Water Supplies have been renewed at one school.
Play Areas.—Spare land adjoining one school has been cleaned
up and rendered useful for games. Grass lawns for physical training
and decorative purposes have been laid down at two schools.
Playfields.—Approximately one-seventh of an acre of land
acquired in Exmouth Road, adjoining the Edinburgh Road Senior
Girls School, has been fenced and laid partly in grass for physical
training purposes and partly as a school garden with border.
Trees have been planted about one playfield. Old school desks
have been converted into tip-up seats and distributed to three play
centres.
Playgrounds.—Two new playgrounds with drainage have been
completed, five playgrounds entirely resurfaced on hard core foundations,
whilst eight playgrounds have been extensively repaired and
placed into a serviceable condition.
Boundaries and Fences.—Chain link fences have been provided
and iron division railings removed at two schools in order to improve
the playing areas.