FITMENTS IN DISGRACEFUL STATE

Chronicle (Levin), 17 April 1946, Page 5

FITMENTS IN DISGRACEFUL STATE

CONBITIONS AT SCHOOL FOR DEAF CHRISTCHURCH, April 16. "The sanitarv iitments oi) tlie exterior of the building were Jiltliy and J regret to sav tliat 1 have never seen any institution in such a disgraceful j state," said the cliief city inspector, I Mr. .T. W. Huggins, in a letter to the Principal of the school for deaf at Sumner, a eopv of which was sent to I the Christchurch Drainage Board. The j noard, after hearing the letter read this evening, decided to send a eopy of it | and of a report to be obtained from its inspector, to the Member of Parliament for the district, l\Ir. McCombs, with a request for liini to take the matter up with the appropriate authorities. In liis letter Mr. Huggins said that he had made an inspection of tlie school | because of the ineidenco of. scarlet fever. He aslced the Principal for immediate attention to the defects he discovered and for some assurartce that a repetition was not likely. The interior of tlie school buildings refleeted credit on the staff. Deseribing water closet blocks, Mr. Huggins said they wefe the worst he had ever seen. Oue closct x\Tas not fimctioning because the cisterii" was defective. Auother was bloclcerl with sewage to the riui level and a blockage from a third had been removed and left lying on tlie floor. It was not his reRpoiisibility to apportion the blanre -but his impression was that*, while a short'age of labour might have been one of the difficulties.. supervision appeared to be entirely laclring..