[Report 1920] / School Medical Officer of Health, Perth County Council.

  • Perthshire (Scotland). County Council.
Date:
1920
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Credit: [Report 1920] / School Medical Officer of Health, Perth County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    f6. Pail closets should be emptied daily in summer, and at least every second day in winter. Earth, ashes or sawdust should be provided. Paper should be supplied in the offices, and kept tidy by means of a small box, nail, or hook. 7. The school offices, water closets, pail privies and urinals should be swept out, or hosed out, daily, and all wood-work should be scrubbed once a week, and whenever it is fouled. 8. The play-sheds should be swept out daily, and the wood¬ work scrubbed at least once a month. 9. Ash-pits should never receive closet refuse. 10. The wash-hand basins should be throughly cleansed at least once a week, and a sufficient number of clean towels provided at least twice a week. Soap should always be available. 11. At the Summer, Easter and Xmas holidays a thorough “ Spring cleaning ” of the school should be carried out, everything that will scrub should be scrubbed—rooms, lobbies, cupboards (after emptying) and all articles in common use by the children, and everything that cannot be washed should be dusted throughly, if possible in the open air. Everything should be removed from the walls, and the wall should be brushed free of dust. Windows should be widely opened during the cleaning. 12. The Head-teacher is responsible for the carrying out of these regulations by the cleaners, and should satisfy himself or herself by a regular morning inspection of the whole school and offices. Etftries should be made weekly in the cleansing register, and whenever there is any failure to carry out the regulations. Any gross neglect should be at once reported to the Local Management Committee. Suggestions are also being made to the Management Committees with regard to regular disinfection of the schools, the condition and nature of the covering of the playgrounds, the provision of apparatus for cleansing foot-gear of children entering school, and with regard to the provision of a proper supply of earth, ashes, sawdust, &c. E. Water Supply.—Improvements in water supply are necessary in many schools. In several schools the water supply is bad, and in about 15 per cent, of schools the supply is insufficient. F. Water Carriage Systems are installed in about 45 per cent, of the schools. Many however are the old trough pattern, which should be gradually replaced by individual closets. In about 45 per cent, pail closets are in use, but very few are properly pro¬ vided with earth, sawdust, etc., and many are ill kept and generally in bad order.