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THE SCHOOL MEDICAL SERVICE IN RELATION TO
PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS.
(3) School Hygiene.
All structural defects relating to heating, lighting and ventilation
are referred to the Committee's Architect (J. H. Jacques,
Esq., F.R.I.B.A.).
At various schools, alterations or improvements were made
as follows:—
The obsolete lavatory basins were removed from Salway
Place, Denmark Street, Silvertown Girls', Upton Junior, Abbey,
Ashburton Senior and Manor Road Schools, and lavatory troughs
with spray taps installed.
At Grange Road Special School a classroom was extended
and a new room provided for Medical Inspection. A new Staff
Room was also provided at Odessa Road School.
The Domestic Centre at Manor Road School was remodelled
and fitted with modern apparatus.
At Holbrook Road School a Science Room and a classroom
were added to the Senior Boys' and Senior Girls' S'chool and a
classroom to the Infants' School. A Medical Inspection room, with
Waiting Room, was also provided, and a domestic hot water supply
added to the School. A Domestic Centre was also provided.
The cleansing of classrooms and cloakrooms and the drying
of children's clothes, as required, continue on the lines set out
previously.
Spray baths are provided at five Elementary Schools, viz.:
Gainsborough Road, Rosetta Road, South Hallsville, Pretoria
Road and Tollgate, also at the Special School at Knox Road and
Fyfield Open-Air School.
Selected children, with the consent of the parents, are conducted
during school hours, in rota, to the Corporation Slipper
Baths at Romford Road, Balaam Street, Plaistow Road, Silvertown
and Fen Street.
The number of attendances of school children at the Corporation
Washing Baths during the year, with the exception of Jupp
Road Baths, which closed to the public on June 8th last, and
Romford Road Baths where children commenced to attend on
June 11th, was as follows:—
Boys Girls Total
19,652 14,395 34,047
With regard to the new Baths at Romford Road, 135 Slipper
Baths have been provided for the use of the general public, and
for school children who attend during school hours in charge of a
teacher. The swimming bath water is continually filtered, aerated
and sterilised, the Filtration Plant being capable of dealing with
120,000 gallons of water per hour.
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