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Unwanted Gas Heaters
Minister for Health. Education and the :arts
Legislative Assembly Question No 212
Ms Follett - asked the Minister for Health, Education and the Arts:
What action has been taken following the advice of the ACT Pollution Control Authority that the use of unwanted gas heaters in ACT classrooms should be investigated.
Mr Humphries - the answer to Ms Folletts question is as follows:
Two schools in the ACT had vented gas heaters installed in selected areas on a trial basis; the schools are Calwell and Isabella Plains Primary Schools .
In August 1939 the Ministry arranged for the ACT Community and Health Services Analytical Laboratory to conduct tests on emissions at both schools.
The results of those tests indicated that concentrations of nitrogen dioxide in the schools did not represent a health hazard. The Analytical Laboratory suggested however that ventilation be improved in some rooms containing the vented gas heaters.
The Ministry has investigated various methods of improving the ventilation in the schools but considers the safest and most economical means of rectifying the situation is to replace the heaters with vented gas heaters.
Arrangements have been made to undertake this work prior to next winter.
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