At the public warm-water hall in the Lower Ward, Gelda Venn keeps the inspection order file beside a chalk line on the basin wall showing the last safe draw before cleaning. The two details are easy to miss in a summary: one is a line in a ledger, the other is the condition that decides whether the line is useful.
Gelda Venn is the sanitation steward for the public baths. On this thaw season visit, the work begins with the bath rotation chart and the settling basin checks; only after the entry is checked can the crew say what the rule asks of the people below.
67 water rotations completed before the final bell were entered this cycle, compared with 69 in the prior file. The figure is one part of a longer handoff. Runa Ash checked the bath rotation chart and the settling basin checks against the field notes. The method is to separate available stock from stock that can reach a patient in time; it confirms the entries, but not every interpretation attached to them.
A shortened schedule reduces wear on the basin; families who rely on the evening rotation say daytime hours are not an equal substitute. The current record does not settle that disagreement. Residents closest to the work describe the difference as a route, a wait or a shift that cannot be moved on a slate. Their accounts have been attached to the docket rather than folded into the total.
The docket has returned for review with the exceptions and unresolved objections attached. The entry belongs to the inspection order file at the public warm-water hall in the Lower Ward. The steward will post an evening rotation for residents who work the late shift. The next visit will show whether the revision travels beyond the office that wrote it.
