Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1853-01-28

1852 124,7S3 10000 ~
In the number of attendants at the pub
lie schools of the State, the Increase in four
years has been from thirty-two thousand one
hundred and seventy -four to ninety thousand;
from proportion of less than one half to
one of nearly three-fourths Of all the children
in the State.
The whole amount of money received
from all sources is reported at Sl27,7l8 As
Amount remaining unex-
pended to the commencement
of the year, 5,755 35
Expended this year for
teachers wages, 105,122 SO
Expended this year for Ii
braries, 5,64I IA
Expended this year for 9TH
er purposes, 1881 81
Remaining unexpended, 1922 %
THE SCHOOL FUND.
The following is statement of the condi-
ton and resources of the School Fund, at
the present time.
Due on Lands Sold, 1851, 931 II
do. Loans, l32,491 GA
In Treasurers hands, 4,777 Is
Total, $4,000 so
DUE ON LANDS SOLD.
Due on Lands Sold, $4O,051 26
do. Loans, 1895 90
In Teeasurer's hands, 1895 50
Total, $45,441 81
These two amounts constitute the School
and the University Fund. The interest t
seven per cent. upon the former, is to be ex-
pended for the benefit of public Schools; the
income derived from the latter is for the use
of the State University.
School HOUSES.
The whole number of School-Houses in the
State, is 1880
The number erected within the present
year, is 22l
Of this number there have been built of
brick, thirteen; of stone, nineteen; of logs,
eighty-one; framed, one hundred and eight.
Of the whole number in the State, sixty-six
are of brick; seventy four of stone; seven
hundred and seventy-eight of logs, and eight
hundred and twelve are framed
The total valuation Of school-houses in the
State, is S261,986 80
There has been raised by tax, within the
present year, and expended in building, re-
pairing, and hiring School-houses, the sum
Of s53,757 80
Of the whole number reported there are
located upon sites containing less than one
acre, 1892
The number unenclosed is 1885
Destitute of Blackboards, Clio
Destitute of Outline Maps, 1869
The progress already made, in providing
houses for the accommodation of the schools,
is highly commendable. Too much should
not be expected of new state just entering
upon the career of its prosperity-many parts
of it newly settled and laboring under the
consequent disadvantages. Still much re-
mains to be done among those who cannot
plead inability or poverty.
In school-room with low ceiling con-
tracted in size, with no means of ventilation,
and containing from fifty to one hundred
scholars, the air-inhaled by each different
pair of lungs-loses its vital properties and
becomes loaded with the impurities and in
fiction thrown off from numerous systems.
To contend that there is, in this, no danger
to the health of the child, is folly. The tenn
porary symptoms of suffering may disappear
with the habits which occasioned them, but
the tendencies to disease linger in the system,
awaiting some predisposing cause to develop
their active strength and hurry their victim
to an untimely grave.
These statements are no exaggeration of
the evil, for exaggeration is impossible
Still, the evil is allowed TO exist, because its
first manifestations are not in the form that
appals and terrifes. Its approach is slow