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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.).
During the year 1936 the children's latrines at Beckton Road,
Holborn Road, and Shipman Road were remodelled and brought
up to date with separate flushing to each pan.
The obsolete lavatory basins were removed from Colegrave
Road, Hermit Road, Napier Road, Russell Road, The Deanery,
Whitehall Place and Carpenters Road.
At Credon Road School a low pressure hot water heating
system was installed.
The Cookery and Laundry Rooms at Carpenters Road School
were remodelled and fitted with modern apparatus.
At various Schools improvements to electric lighting have
been effected.
A domestic hot water supply to the lavatory basins at six
Schools was provided.
The hot water heating boilers at Rosetta Road and Grange
Road Special School were replaced.
A new medical inspection room was provided at Grange Road
Special School, also new lavatory basins installed, also new
medical inspection room at Knox Road Special School.
At Fyfield Residential Open Air School alterations and additions
have been made for increased accommodation, bringing the
totals up to 100 boys and 100 girls, and the exterior of the old
buildings redecorated.
At Frederick Road School a new domestic science room, etc.,
was erected, and at Plaistow Municipal Secondary School a new
Dining Room was added.
A new Trade School for Girls was erected in Water Lane,
and the land at the rear of Nos. 11 and 13 Water Lane formed
into a playground. A playground was also formed adjoining the
Lister D.C. Institute.
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
at 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.
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