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Schools.
There are 49 Council Schools, and 12 Non-Provided Schools,
comprising 162 Departments. The accommodation available is
57,507.
In addition there are two Schools for Mentally and Physically
Defective Children, two Centres for the Deaf, one Open-Air Day
School, and one Residential Open-Air School, and two Nursery
Schools.
The School Medical Service is administered by the School
Medical Officer (who is also the Medical Officer of Health) with a
whole-time staff of a Chief Assistant School Medical Officer, 6
Assistant Medical Officers, 5 Dental Surgeons, 28 Nurses,
9 Clerks, and 1 Messenger.
The following improvements have taken place at various
Schools:—
Modernising Domestic Centre.
Hall provided.
Central Heating installed.
Floor re-laid.
Latrines remodelled in three Schools.
Domestic Hot Water Supply provided at two Schools.
Provision of new Dining Room.
Old-fashioned galleries or steps in Classrooms are
removed each year.
Floor planing, tarpaving, and re-dressing of playgrounds,
re-covering and repairs to corrugated galvanised
iron roofs, repairs to asphalte roofs, replacement
of boilers at three Schools, and the redecoration
of nine Schools externally and ten Schools internally.
With regard to the prevention of the spread of infectious
disease, the Medical Officer of Health on receiving information of
a case of infection in a house, instructs the Sanitary Inspector to
call and make full investigations as to the number of children in
the house; also whether they are in attendance at any School, and
any other relevant details. In addition he informs the parents
that their children must not return to School until the house has
been officially certified as free from infection. Upon receipt of the
icport of the Inspector, the Head Teachers of all Schools involved
(Day and Sunday) are notified immediately by the issue of a red
coloured notice, requesting exclusion of the children from the
infected house. This notice is followed up by a white notice freeing
the lamily from quarantine at the completion of the necessary
isolation, and the official disinfection of the premises. A supplv
disinfectants for general or special use in Schools is supplied
hv the hducation Authority.
No School or Department was closed during the year on
account of the prevalence of any infectious disease.
No complaints were received with regard to unsatisfactorywater
supply. ,
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