HEALTH OF NEW PLYMOUTH.
INSPECTOR’S STARTLING REPORT
tFBB, PRESS ASSOCIATION.! NEW PLYMOUTH, July 18. At the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board meeting, the Health Inspector reported adversely on the Urenui school where an epidemic of measles occurred lately. The report stated the accommodation was for one hundred, and the roll number was 133. The elder pupils were taught in a room 23 to 24 feet by lift 3in. Eighty-three, inf ants were taught in a room 28ft by lift. Three chimneys were smokey, and there had been two large foul excreta pits close to the school for many years. The drainage was bad, and there were pigsties adjacent to the school grounds. The Inspector also reported that a New Plymouth restaurant has a kitchen which is on the ground floor and contains two bedrooms, one watercloset, and a sink. The bedrooms are. ill-ventilated. One of them has no air or light, and the other no air.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3273, 19 July 1911, Page 5
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156HEALTH OF NEW PLYMOUTH. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3273, 19 July 1911, Page 5
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