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SWIMMING BATH
The Corporation rented from the Surrey County Council (for the 1953
Summer season) the open-air swimming bath situated in the grounds
of the Royal Female Orphanage.
The supervision and arrangement of sessions were under the control
of the Public Health Department. Facilities were given to schools,
youth organisations, and residents as in previous years.

SCHOOLS
School Closure. Infectious diseases common to childhood were not
prevalent in epidemic form in any of the schools during the year. As a
result it was not found necessary for any school to be closed by the local
sanitary authority to prevent the spread of infectious disease.
Medical Inspection. Under the 1944 Education Act the Assistant
Medical Officer of the County Council continued to carry out routine
and special medical inspections of schoolchildren in the maintained
schools. This work is under the general supervision of the Medical
Officer of Health, in his capacity of Divisional School Medical Officer for
the Mid-Eastern Divisional Executive of the Surrey County Council.
Water Supply and Sanitary Conditions. All the schools are supplied
with water from the public mains and are connected with the sewers.
During the year some progress was made in bringing the maintained
schools up to pre-war standards of decoration. No major sanitary
defects were found.
Considerable thought has been given to the maintenance of good
standards of hygiene in school canteens. The serving of meals on a
large scale in establishments such as schools, represents a danger-point
for the occurence of food poisoning. The maintenance of high standards
of hygiene and sanitation is dependent upon the intelligent co-operation
of every individual member of a canteen staff. The Ministries of Health
and Education are constantly devising methods of educating staff to
realise the importance of a high standard of personal hygiene, in order to
avoid outbreaks of food poisoning.
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