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Sundridge Hall Farm and Hook Farm were specially inspected
and reported upon. Considerable difficulty was
experienced in getting the necessary alterations carried out
in accordance with our regulations, but the work was eventually
done to the satisfaction of the Council.
At the beginning of the year the closet accommodation at
the Bromley National Schools was found to be defective and
insanitary. Steps were at once taken to minimise the evil,
and during the Easter holidays the old iron open trough
closets in each department (boys, girls, and infants) were
replaced by modern white glazed stoneware closets of the
isolated type, with syphon.ic action and automatic flushing
cisterns.
At the end of June it became necessary to close the Addison
Road Schools, as it was found that the drains had
becomc choked, and were leaking badly, and the trough
closets were defective. As the whole system was bad and
beyond repair, the Council caused the drainage to be entirely
reconstructed on modern lines with new isolated pedestal
closets, automatically flushed.
The work was carried out before the re-opening in August.
During the closure of the Mason's Hill (Infants) School
in September, owing to the outbreak of Diphtheria, they
were thoroughly cleansed and disinfected.
Several letters were reoei-ved from ratepayers asking for
a bi-weekly collection of house refuse, but the Council did
not see their way to accede to the request.