View report page

24
In Lonsdale Road a new School is being built, close to the
dock at which the domestic refuse is being at present barged away.
In my opinion this is, sanitarily, an undesirable site for such a
school, and its choice is the more to be regretted as at least one
other, more convenient and suitable, has been and is still available.
It is, perhaps, not too much to hope that in future some consultation
may take place with the Local Sanitary Authority in the
event of the Education Committee of the County Council desiring
to build more schools.
I would again draw attention to the unquestioned advantage
which the Staffordshire method of school planning has over that
now officially recommended, and generally followed, in this part of
the country at least.
Action taken during the year with regard to health of
scholars and prevention of the spread of infectious
disease amongst them will be referred to in a subsequent section
of this report. But it may be here stated that 1908 has been,
from the school point of view, the healthiest yet known in our
district, and that school closure has not once been called for.
The methods of dealing with infectious diseases
in this district are planned with the idea of exercising public control
from the very first.
There are two great problems to be considered in dealing with
infectious disease that must not be confused.
The first is the question of the conditions under which sporadic
cases appear to originate or occur, and under which certain
diseases tend to recur, after intervals, with unusual frequency or
severity.