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Prosecutions were instituted in 11 cases, and fines inflicted in 6 cases
amounting to £18, and costs recovered amounting to £1 6s. 6d.
DETAILS OF WORK.
Details are again submitted of some of the principal matters occupying the
attention of the Department during the year.
ST. PAUL'S SCHOOLS, BROKE ROAD.
The w.c. arrangements for the children at these schools numbering 250 boys
and an equal number of girls were of the foulest and most dilapidated character,
and altogether inadequate in number for 500 children.
The vicar having voluntarily commenced alterations, it was proposed to fit up
new w.c.'s with the troughs, which have so often been objected to as exposing
children unnecessarily to odours arising from accumulations of the excreta of other
children. These objections being urged on the vicar's attention, and the advantage
of the Shoreditch w.c.'s as fitted up in other schools having been demonstrated to
him on personal inspection, orders were given to carry out the new arrangements
in accordance with the suggestions submitted on behalf of the Vestry.
This has been done, and the w.c.'s fitted up in a superior manner with pans
and traps, hinged seats, and syphonic water-flushing apparati.
The cleanly condition in which these closets are now kept—in addition to
those of four other middle class schools fitted in the same manner—is a positive
proof of their great superiority to the foul trough system.