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With the modern facilities for transport and power it is
difficult to and any laudable reason why offensive trades should
be established and carried on in the very midst of thickly populated
districts.
Owing to the establishment of new trades of offensive
types to meet modern demands and with the rapid advance of
chemical science, it is a matter for consideration as to whether
or not the Council should deem it advisable to revise their
list of offensive trades and the Bye-Laws affecting such trades.
Schools.
The Public Elementary Schools consist of 46 Council
Schools and 14 Non-Provided Schools, together with five
Council Special Schools, two Higher Elementary Schools, and
two Secondary Schools, affording in the aggregate accommodation
for 60,743 scholars.
The School Medical Service is administered by the Chief
School Medical Officer (who is also the Medical Officer of
Health) with a whole-time staff of 6 Medical Officers, 3 Dental
Surgeons, 23 Nurses and 9 Clerks.
The Schools are, with one or two notable exceptions,
modern, substantially built buildings adequately supplied with
water, and provided with sufficient surrounding air space, while
their general cleanliness is satisfactory. Cloak-room accommodation
is very limited in some Schools, and more efficient
heating is desirable, also several latrines need re-modelling.
With a view to checking the spread of epidemic disease it
has been the practice for many years past for the Medical
Officer of Health on receiving information of the occurrence
of infectious disease in the family of a scholar to send a redcoloured
Notice to the Head Teacher of the School attended
(Day School and Sunday School) recommending: the exclusion
of children coming: from the infected home. The Red Notice
is subsequentlv followed by a White Notice freeing the family
from quarantine on the completion of the necessary isolation
and the official disinfection of the premises. Each school is
provided with a supply of disinfectants for general or special
use by the Education Authority.
It was not found necessary to order the closure of any
School, or part of a School, on account of infectious disease,
or for any other reason.