CLEANING AND CAPITATION

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 81, 2 October 1929, Page 10

CLEANING AND CAPITATION

(To the Editor.)

Sir—A deputation on this matter is to wait on the Prime Minister on Thursday" The. issue is one of fact. Do committees receive enough to pay for fuel and sweeping? Is the fuel sufficient to heat and the sweeping sufficient to clean? Are schools Z^i «* »i»a«fr. Quarterly, or Iwlce yearly? If twice yearly is this -enough' X S^ 0? 18 ,b e Recklessly, spotlessly clean? What do the health authorities say?. Does education compensate a child leaving a clean home tor a dirty school' Are epidemics more liable to incubate in and spread from a -school than any other building? Are cleaners underpaid? Is their average week, 35 hours and their average wage £2 ss? Should school caretakmg be a part-time or a whole-time job? What is it m secondary schools' What is it m the Old Country? Why do primary schools receive a capitation'of 7 S to 8s and secondary schools* a capitation of 50s (six times as much)? Is it because secondary pupils need cleaner surroundings than infant school pupils? I suggest that the Government consider setting up a Commission to determine these facts. Once that is done there mil be no need to rely on ex parte statements in regard to what is and what should be --I am, etc^

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