The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-03-16
THE CRoUDED sCHooL HOUSES.
The Necessity OF Reform Considered by the
Board Of Education.

board OF Education.
The SUNS accounts of the crowding and
lack Of ventilation in the public school houses
have Induced the Board OF Education to act.
Yesterday the sunjoined report was made:
= TO THE BoAHp oy EpuoArIoS- Geaa,m.a: Your
sre satisfied that many OF ciiss-roos pauicularly
Various c.a9ss ft ~ SSnSatsd
TIrsi-ihe rapid increase in the population q the
city has outrun the D ARDS power, limited BY the
amount o. mensy az IT'S disposal to increase tue ca
see9ad.r.tty Tor the same reason ~ elas, room.
seats than they should nave been, the health OF the
ihird-The local schooA orcers, naturally DESTROYS
that TIE SCHOOLS IN their charge saould be arseI st
exercised tPsr ega rkeI g sseSS
rss o. SesSborns schools IN this respect 'a no d,en
sassfSn under men; hsTys IN HlasToa: e,sss over
aue T. do because their authority regard TO admitting
pup has not been regulated b. ether the Board II
hec- l. no douot hai oesdcs reform IN the particular
sch 'ols sassc!ory the BOARD must provide for them
better system Of ventilation system OF ventilatiOn
ehhdren are packed proper amount OF door aud Gu
oa air space must lie allotted TO every chill IN each
cla,-roOu. Experts dlner greatly in regard to the
snace due 10 every pupil, out they nat the
scSoo houa S ne S M 1u ncPsssea nS sWnsPss re
form 70 ,his particular wn exclude from the scooos
should be Instituted A regulation OF the board
admitting pupils, and cneek the excessive crowdlng q
the schools winch Justly complained OF as great evil
Your committee do not ee that they warranted IN
Tecommendlng the large allowance OF SPACE 20 every
they of II for your approva smaller ALLOW whic1
i, howeN r, much larger tn that now conceded.
nuce within short per1Od he attendance IN aOme OF
the schools, now earessveD croWde l.
crordng 10 the f1tore by prohibiting principals nom
admitting more pupils 10 Their schools than can be
properly accommodated. The attendance In nerent
schools v IA also De cquallzed thereby.
Now some schools are oyernos ing while Others In
A
for insufficient ventilation and overcrowdlng, how
ever, lies Ia tue great increase OF school acoonlmoda
lay ofconsderAbe money. Therefore IL eau be apphcd
gradually only an "a 20 be hoped that the oommun
OF te board toward the expenditure OF money, viii pa
ttently await the realization Of tue folio wing
tory measures, which your committee oner for Approy
al us hmcnctnrnts Go the bylaws OF tue Board;
snail be the duty Of every prncinal to rcert all
pcation- for the admission OF pupils into school
or class when the room occupied BY the hed 10
| the extent Of itsi eating capacity
In nking the seating capacity % rooms the following
sha be the minimum allowance OF hoUl surface aud
In the three lower grades OF the primary schools and
departments nSr square feet door surface ami
enty cuhc eet OF air space. In the three g
sN square feet OF noor surface eighty cuOlc feet OF
| air space.
In the four lower grades Of The grammar schools
seven square feet OF moor surface nnrY cube feet
OF ar sp ce the tour higher grades niue square feet
OF Moor surface and one hundred feet Of air
space,
siding nearest TO the sch ol hsl have the preference
All retectca applicants shall De sent TO the nsarcst
school that has accommodation for them.
HENRY l.. WEST,
DAVID Y. BAKER. ,-...- -
STEPHEN A. WALKER, ny N""3'
H. q. BRARpsLKE,
The confederation of the report was deferred
until the 2Otn.