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forwarded to the Education Committee. During vacation the
cloakrooms of the provided schools have been sprayed with formalin
disinfectant to prevent possible infection, and several schools and
classrooms have also been sprayed.
Most of the schools are fitted with trough closets and although
fitted with automatic flush cisterns, are flushed twice a day by the
caretakers, so that soil accumulates in them until the dinner hour or
after school time. I note with pleasure that the Architect of the
Education Committee has recently recommended, for future schools,
the use of independent water-closets fitted with water waste preventers,
such are in use in every child's home.
I strongly recommended such a system in my annual report
for the year 1896, knowing that it had been in use in London
Board Schools with the best possible results, and I would confidently
recommend the adoption of the Architect's suggestion as
sanitary, educational and economical.
Coffee and Eating Houses.—Frequent visits have been paid
to these premises (47 in number), and. on our recommendation, improvements
effected from time to time with every readiness on the
part of the proprietors.
Special cleansing has been done in 17 cases.
Drains repaired „ 3 „
Accumulations removed „ 1 „
Paving repaired ,, 2 ,,
Animals improperly kept removed ,, 1 „
Cisterns cleansed and covered ,, 2 „
W.c. flush repaired ,, 4 „
Back Passage Ways and Mews.—During the year I reported to
the Sanitary Committee that the passages at the rear of Nos. 99
to 129 (odd), Markhouse Road, 91 to 97, Markhouse Road, 34 to 36,
Markhouse Road, 145 to 151 Coppermill Lane, and Mews occupied
by the Waverley Confectionery Co., in Greenleaf Road, were in
such a condition as to require works of paving and drainage. In
the latter case, after notice, the owner paved the whole of the Mews
with blue Staffordshire bricks laid upon a good concrete bed, and
well drained into the sewer. The other cases were referred to the
Council to be dealt with as private streets under Section No. 150 of
the Public Health Act, 1875.