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Tottenham 1925

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Tottenham]

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Holy Trinity School.—This school suffers from the proximity of the
London General Omnibus Company's Garage in Philip Lane and from
numerous stoppings at, and startings from, High Cross.
Stamford Hill School.—The playground accommodation is inadequate,
but measures are being take to provide increased space.
School for Deaf and Vale Road Schools.—These are new schools and
the playgrounds are still in an unfinished condition.
Earlsmead School.—At this school there is a large playground used
by the girls and infants. This might be divided with advantage.
Ventilation.
The ventilation throughout the schools is satisfactory generally,
except where rooms have been divided, causing one of the rooms to ventilate
into the other.
Lighting.
The lighting in some of the classrooms in the schools is from the right
of the scholar and not from the left as it should be.
In the following schools the window-sill is so far above the floor
level as to deprive the rooms of a good deal of natural lighting:—
West Green School.
Stamford Hill „
Earlsmead Boys' „
Page Green Girls' „
In the undermentioned schools the gas lighting is unsatisfactory,
both in respect of position and the number of brackets.
Bruce Grove School. Holy Trinity School.
Crowland Road „ St. Katharine's Girls' „
Seven Sisters Infants' „ St. Ann's Boys' „
Lancasterian Boys' „ Parkhurst Boys' & Girls' Schools.
St. Ann's Boys' and Girls' Schools.—The natural lighting is inadequate.