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6
Artificial Lighting.
The school is lighted throughout with electric light, and each
class room is lighted by means of six single points.
Walls and Floors.
Internally the walls are finished with plastolith dados up to a
height of three feet six inches and sirapite plaster for the remainder
of the height. The floors in the hall on the ground floor and in the
corridors throughout are of pitch pine blocks, and in the class
rooms batten flooring nailed to the joists on the first floor, and on
the ground floor to dovetailed fillets bedded in the concrete. The
floors of the cloak rooms, basement and latrines, are finished in
granolithic paving, and the entrance halls are paved with terrazzo.
All external angles in the brickwork, woodwork, and plaster are
rounded in order to prevent unnecessary damage to the fabric, and
to avoid risk of accident to the children. Internally hollow rounded
mouldings are used as far as possible, and the internal angles at
the junction of the walls and ceilings are also rounded to a radius
of inches in order to prevent unnecessary accumulation of dust.
Playgrounds.
Two playgrounds are provided, one for the joint use of the
girls' and infants' departments, with a total area of 1,680 square
yards, and one for the boys' department, with a total area of 2,150
square yards, and a separate range of latrines is provided for each
department.
The sanitary arrangements and hygienic conditions of the
schools were practically the same as in the previous year, but it is a
matter for congratulation that the ample increase in accommodation
provided by the new Orleans departments will diminish the overcrowding
in some of the schools which has recently been inevitable.
CO-RELATION OF SCHOOL MEDICAL AND OTHER
DEPARTMENTS.
It has again been possible for the Medical Officer of Health to
undertake the duties of medical inspection in the schools, and
consequently co-relation between the Public Health and School
Medical services was complete.