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(2) That all windows be opened before school
begins in the morning, after school hours in
the afternoon, and on Saturdays, so that the
schools are thoroughly flushed with fresh air
in the absence of the children.
(3) All schools be thoroughly cleansed throughout
during the summer vacation. All maps, pictures,
etc., be taken down from the walls and
dusted, or, if possible, washed. The walls
swept down and then sprayed from below upwards.
All floors, woodwork—fixed or moveable—dados,
etc., be washed with hot water,
soap and soda. All cupboards be emptied,
their contents cleansed and the cupboards
themselves washed out. Penholders and ink.
bottles to be also washed. All ventilators and
water cisterns to be inspected and cleansed.
During the Christmas and Easter vacations the time is
not sufficient to allow of the same thorough cleansing, but
it should be the same in kind though not in degree.
In addition, in the Junior Mixed and Infants' Departments
of the larger schools, one class.room be thoroughly
washed, floor, dado, desks, and walls swept, once a week in
rotation. So that if there were seven class.rooms in the
school each room would be washed once in seven weeks.
Also I recommend, as an experiment, that two Junior Mixed
schools be selected, viz., Christchurch and Cleveland Road;
that the class.room in these schools due for the weekly cleaning
be sprayed out and disinfected. The result on these
schools could be then compared with two other similar
schools, viz., Loxford and Downshall, which are being
treated in the /same way with the exception that they are