The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-17

Drug Room of Health Depart
ment: Walls need new plaster in
several places. Windows need to
be cleaned. Electrical wiring in
bad condition. Walls and floor dirty
and should be cleaned. We recon-
mend that a trash can be placed
in this room for refuse.
National Youth Administration
room: Walls need replastering.
Welfare department: All wiring
loose and should be repaired.
Associated charities: Wiring in
bad condition and should be COR
rected.
Old court house building: Down
spout needs repairing. Consider
able trash was found in the clock
tower which should be removed
ana kept clean at all times.
Register of deeds office: Broken
window glass should be replaced
with new glass.
Fire Department
Fire boat: We wish to call the
5 Courts attention to our November
!. 1910 Term Report. We regret to
inform the Court that none of the
suggestions OF recommendations
: made in that report covering the
5 fire boat station have been cor
t rected. 1t is the opinion of this
Grand Jury that conditions exist
t ing at this particular place are
5 very hazardous and should be i'm
mediately corrected.
We found a narrow plank used
for a Walk-way out to the fire
: boat which. in our opinion, should
( be replaced with a much wider
Walk-Way to eliminate the posi-
bility of anyone falling from same.
I Fifth and Castle station: We
J found that several helmets were
, old and full of holes and should be
replaced. Certain repairs should be
made in the shower room to elm,
mate leaking down stairs.
Public Schools
Isaac Bear school: The front en-
trance to the building is improper
ly lighted. A light should be placed
Immediately over the front doors
and a light fixture should be placed
I in the space provided therefor i'm
lmediately over the front steps. The
I hall is improperly connected in
f that the switch thereon is con
y trolled from the work shop in the
basement and when the shop is
! closed the light cannot be turned on
= from the hall. The main audi
forum is obviously without ade-
quate heating facilities and for
this reason, we were informed,
cannot be used in extreme colo
weather. The switch on the fan
on the south side of the auditorium
is out of order. A light should be
placed over the Market street en-
trance to the auditorium, and the
doors to this entrance are in need
OF immediate repair. The drinking
fountains, both inside and outside
of the building, should be immedi-
ately repaired or preferably re-
placed with new equipment. A
wooden shack, adjoining the ear
of the school lot, is in such a
state Of decomposition that we con-
slider same a menace to the lives
and limbs of the children playing
around it. We recommend that
this shack be condemned and torn
down. Adequate and appropriate
racks should be provided for stor:
ing bicycles owned by the chill
dren. The center floor drain in
the boys toilet on the first floor
is clogged and should receive I'M
mediate attention. We were in
formed that there is a bad leak
from the roof, coming down
through the odd partition wall"
The school grounds are in a de-
plorable condition and study should
be given to some long range, per
manent improvement which will
prevent erosion.
Hemingway school: We regret to
report that no action has been
taken on a prior recommendation
that the locks on the main doors,
both east and west entrances, be
replaced with locks or some me-
chanical device which will enable
the doors to be easily opened by
children. The present condition OF
these doors is definitely a menace
to safety of the children in event
of fire. Previous report has also
been made of several broken win
dow panes in the basement and
this condition continues.
We found that all the county
school buses \(19) and perhaps
some few other school trucks, are
oiled and gassed from an under
ground gasoline storage tank To-
Gated on the Sixth Street side OF
the building. This tank is OF $50
gallons capacity and is replenlshed
two or three times a week by a
petroleum Tank Wagon" We con-
slider such an accumulation of gas
oline on these premises as a def
mite hazard and this hazard is in
tensified by the 'unloading' OF
tank wagons and ''gassing'' of bus
kes. We were informed that this
tank was the scene of a fire about
a year ago. We recommend that
immediate steps be taken to Sc
cure some other location for this
tank.