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SANITARY CONVENIENCES AND LAVATORIES.
In the older schools trough closets are in use, but in
the more recent, separate pedestal closets have been
installed, doubtless with beneficial results from an educative
point of view. The trough closets are decidedly out of
date, and it is to be hoped these will not be installed in any
future school.
VOLUNTARY SCHOOLS.
These are mostly the old village schools.
The Roman Catholic School is comparatively modern,
and an enlargement of this school is at present being carried
out, which will largely increase the accommodation.
Aldborough Hatch School is a small school in the
rural portion of the district. Until this year it was not
provided with a proper water supply, but now, by agreement
with the Council, the South Essex Water Works Company
have extended a main to this district, and the school is now
well supplied. There is no sewer in this portion of the
district, so that the privy system is in vogue; however, it is
kept in good order and is frequently emptied.
Barkingside School is heated with open stoves and
lighted with gas. During the year the old desks have been
replaced by dual ones. Trough closets were installed a year
or so ago, and work satisfactorily.
The National School is the old village church school,
and the ventilation in some of the class.rooms is not good.
It is heated by stoves and lighted by gas. The
drains were choked at the end of the year, and the stoppage
was relieved by opening up, as there was no intercepting