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fashioned lattice windows which do not allow of a plentiful access of
light to the room. In the large classroom the East window is of the
same type.
Cloakroom.—No heating apparatus 4s .provided.
Girls' Department.
Classrooms. Here again there is a dark dado throughout the
school. In cold wea her the heating is inadequate. Some of the desks
provided are too low for the girls using them.
Cloakrooms. No facility for drying clothes is provided and the
cloakrooms are dark and damp.
Playground.— The playground is unpaved and is very muddy in
wet weather and dusty in dry weather. A covered shed is required.
There is no teachers' room.
Infants' Department.
A dark green dado is present throughout the school and the school
premises are dirty and urgently require decorating.
Lighting.—The lighting, both natural and artificial, is deficient.
Classrooiris.—The windows in two of the rooms are much too
small and throughout the school the panes are latticed.
Heating arrangements are inadequate in cold weather.
Cloakroom.—No means of drying clothes are provided.
Playground.—This is unpaved.
Lavatories.—There are insufficient W.C.'s and urinals.
HIGH CROSS WARD.
Page Green School.—Boys' Department.
Throughout the school there is a dark dado and a number of
old-fashioned desks are in use.
Classrooms.— In room 1 the lighting is defective and borrowed
light could be obtained by the construction of a large sized roof light
in the adjacent corridor. Gas radiators have been placed in classrooms
7 and 9 and have added materially to the comfort of teachers
and scholars.
Cloakroom.—The cloakroom is unheated and its ventilation is unsatisfactory.