[Report 1938] / Medical Officer of Health, West Lancashire R.D.C.
- West Lancashire (England). Rural District Council.
- Date:
- 1938
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1938] / Medical Officer of Health, West Lancashire R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![closets installed on new concrete floors, and the floor-space between the closets and the urinal concreted. Internal alterations at Melling C.E. School have so altered the sizes of classrooms as to make them more suitable for teaching purposes. A heating oven has now been provided for warming the children’s meals. Melling R.C. School has been modernised by the addition of a new large classroom—one of the most pleasant in the district. Central heating has been installed throughout the school. Other alterations have provided a new corridor, cloakrooms, lavatory bowls with hot and cold running water. As a small rural school, Melling R.C. is now (]uite in the flrst class. A convenient small field adjacent to the play¬ ground is used by the children in favourable weather. At North Meols St. Stelphen’s C.E. School lavatory accommodation has been provided for the Staff. The playground is in poor condition, but the Managers hope to give this matter attention during the year. The Head Teacher at the Primitive Methodist School reports favour¬ ably on the improvement in physique of children taking free milk, and expresses the hope that all others should take advantage of the milk- in-schools scheme. At Rufford Holmeswood Methodist School the boys’ playground needs re-surfacing. The boys’ playground at Maghull R.C. School needs re-surfacing and the entrance to the school from the girls’ play ground on wet days is water logged. The attention of the Managers has been called to these points. Scarisbrick St. Mary’s R.C. School Mixed Dept, was refloored com¬ pletely, and provision made for adequate ventilation underneath the floors. Playgrounds at this school need levelling and re-surfacing. At times they are so wet that physical training lessons cannot be given. Attendance was badly affected owing to the exclusion of measles and scarlet fever cases and their conta^cts. At Tarleton Mere Brow School, dangerous pillars supporting the roof have been removed and solid brick pillars substituted. The old small- paned windows, which were in a decayed condition, have been replaced by modern large-paned windows with steel frames, providing improved lighting and ventilation. As a safeguard to the health of the children, it is imperative that the reconstruction of the sanitary conveniences should be put in hand without delay. The present system is antiquated, and the boys’ section is almost falling down.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30261648_0071.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
