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I append a Table showing the locality of each of the thirty
Schools in the District, with other important and interesting information
extracted from the last half-yearly Report of the
School Board for London. At the commencement
of the year I was exercised as to the best means to
prevent infectious diseases being conveyed by children
attending School. It had hitherto been the custom
to forbid children whose friends were affedted by
epidemic diseases to attend school, and the teachers of such school
were also informed of the particulars in every case ; but complications
arose where children from the same family attended different schools,
and even various departments in the same school. To assist in this
difficulty, the co-operation of S. Mather, Esq., Superintendent of
School Board Visitors for the Tower Hamlets, was enlisted, and in
all cases we now communicate with this gentleman, and by means of
his staff of Visitors the requisite exclusion is more satisfactorily
effected.
Educational
provision
in the
District.
The mean weekly temperature of the air during the year was
5o°. Fahrenheit. The highest temperature recorded was 82°. on
June 27th, and the lowest was 24°.5 on November
11th. Rain fell upon 151 days to an aggregate of
17.98 inches.
Meteorology.
Mem. —One inch deep of rain-fall on an acre (allowing 10-lbs.
to a gallon) weighs nearly 101 tons.
I have the honour to remain,
Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
JOSEPH LOANE.
To the Board of Works,
Whitecliapel District.
P.S.—Since I wrote the Report, your Board has adopted the recommendation of
the Committee of Works that " so soon as arrangements can be made, there
shall be erected in the District a Destrudtor, built upon the model of that
which a Sub-Committee of your Board inspected at Ealing." The
importance of such a work it would be impossible to over-rate.