THE URENUI SCHOOL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 28, 27 July 1911, Page 7

THE URENUI SCHOOL.

ITS SANITARY CONDITION. Mr. C. M. Lepper's report on tlie condition of the Urcmii school nnd its surroundings, as ipublishcd last Wednesday, dealing with the excreta pits, waste water cesspits, fencing, etc., was read sit the Education Board meeting last night. Mr. llulcombe complained l that the fences didn't concern a health inspector. He thought, too, that (lie official might have hail the.courtesy to have.informed Mid chairman -of -the"'committee 'of 'the intended visit, so that he could have received reliable information on which to base his report. As it was, much of the information which had evidently been supplied to Mr. Leppcr was quite incorrect. For instance, the report said the excreta pits at the out-offices had been in use for some years. As a matter of fact, these were made only 12 or 13 months ago. and the committee had 'been very ctueful of late years in anything affecting the sanitation of the school. Mr. Ilalcoiube said he could see from the report that the head teacher had accompanied Mr. Leppcr in hi* inspection, and on the information which he had given the inspector had now issued a report which amounted to a serious charge against the committee. To see a report from the inspector that the pits had been \ised for a number of years and were very objectionable was 'absolutely ridiculous. As for the. waste water outlet, that was a matter that he knew nothing a.bout, for it had been ar--1 ranged hy the Board's architect and the overseer,

Mr. Morton said the report failed to give, the Board the information it had been anxious to obtain, i.e., in reference to the proximity of the Kaleyards and their probable effect on the ' health of the pupils. The report didn't mention the salevards, but mentioned some pipstyes without statin": whose or where they were. Mr. Morton Slid the Board had expected, too, that the inspection would he made by a qualified and trained official, and the'report of the secretary to the Hospital Board hardlv met the case. Of course, that gentleman miph) he. a. qualified health officer or sanitary inspector, but Mr. Morton was puzzled to know where he had received his training. Tt would have been better had the Health Department sent- its own officer. Subsequently Mr. Morion slid he understood that the Hospital Board's own inspector mode fne inspection, accompanied bv the secretary, who was nominally the inspector pendina- file pnzottin<; of the inspector's appointment. A com' of the report is fo be forwarded to tlie Urenui committee for its remarks.