1949-HKRS30-8-39_Part01 — Page 65

Water supply.

Identification

8. If the supply of water provided for any school is, in the opinion of a Medical Officer of Schools or a Health Inspector of Schools, insufficient or unwholesome, the Director may, by notice in writing, require the mannger to increase or improve the supply, or to adopt necessary precautions within auch time na may he specified in the notice. Failure to comply with the provisions of any such notice shall be a breach of this regulation.

Every classroom shall be prominently marked with an of classrooms. identification letter or number.

Maximum number of pupils:

Schools in

tcpement boyses.

Cleaning and

rsbour washing.

Desks, seats

and black-

boards.

Technical

equipment.

Print in text-books.

Smoking and spining.

Medical exam- ination of pupils.

10. In every classroom there shall be kept exhibited in a prominent place a framed certificate sigued by the Director or some officer on his behalf certifying the maximun umber of pupila permitted in that room, and no more than such maximum number shall be permitted in that room.

11. Where a school nerupies a floor in a tenement-house the whole floor shall be used exclusively as a classroom and no partitions shall be erected therein without the written permission of the Director,

12. (1) Every classroom shall be swept daily before the opening of school and the floors shall be washed nud disinfected at least once a week.

(2) The manager shall, if so required in writing by the Director, cause the whole or any part of the school premises to be suitably colour-wushed or repainted.

13. Every manager shall provide in his school desks, sents and blackboords of a type approved by the Director.

14. In a school where technical subjects are taught, the manager shall provide adequate equipment and apparatus to the satisfaction of the Director.

16. Text-books used in any school shall contaiu print of a kiud approved by the Director.

16. (1) The manager shall not permit smoking in any class- room during school hours.

(2) Spitting is prohibited on school premises,

17. (1) A Medical Officer of Schools may examine in any school the person and clothing of any child attending the school: Provided that female pupils over the age of ten years shall not be examined by a male person except with the consent of the head teacher and in the presence of an adult female person.

(2) If on such examination a Medical Officer of Schools - is of the opinion that the person or clothing of any pupil is infected with vermin or is in a foul or filthy condition, he may require the nuunger to exclude such pupil from the school forthwith until such time as the person and clothing of the pupil have been cleased to the satisfaction of a Medical Officer of Schools.

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disease.

18. (1) Tf Medical Officer of Schools certifies to the lafections Director that any teacher, pupil, or employee should be excluded from school by reason of suffering or having recently suffered from any infectious disease, or by reason of having been in contact with or living in the same house as a person suffering or having recently suffered from an infectious disease, the manager shall, if so instructed in writing by the Director, cause such teacher, pupil, or employee to be excluded from school for such period as the Medical Officer of Schools shall deem necessary,

(2) The manager shall immediately report to a Medical Officer of Schools may suspected or known case of infectious disease amongst teachers, pupils or employees of a school, or when be suspects or kuows that ney such person has been in contact with a case of infectious disease.

(3) If in any school there has been reported or found a case of infectious disease amongst the teachers, pupils or employees of that school, the Director may on the advice of à Medion! Officer of Schools order the closure of that school for such period as be may consider neccssary,

(4) No manager or teacher shall knowingly admit to school any teacher, pupil, or employee excluded from any other school under regulation 17 or 18.

19. (1) In every boarding school a superficial dormitory area Boarding of at least forty square feet shall be provided for each hoarder and schools, the ceiling of every dormitory shall be at least twelve feet above the floor.

(2) Every boarding school shall have a suitable room set

aside for sole use as a sanatorium or sick room.

(3) No dormitory shall be in a tenement-house.

(4) In every boarding school-

(a) the dormitory accommodation;

(b) the washing and bathing arrangements;

(c) the messing and kitchen accommodation; (d) the latrine accommodation and sanitary arrange-

ments; and

(e) the aren provided for open air recreation; shall be of such adequate standard and so maintained as to satisfy the reasonable requirements of the Director.

(5) No hoarding school shall be registered unless the latrine accommodation consists of water closets or of water closets and urinals connected to a flush system.

(6) The manager of every boarding school shall, if so required by the Director in writing, appoint a matron to be in charge of the boarders.

20. (1) The manager of every boarding school shall cause a Modical medical examination of every boarder and of the school premises examination in boarding to be made at least once in every six mouths.

schools.