The Portland daily press., 1884-03-03

Teachers Most of the teachers Of Portland are
residents of the city about two-thirds of them are
gradua'es Of the High School, and one-thrd are
graduates of the practice ass The teache have
been well ftsi Tor their worS. an are faithful and
successful in it, They well deserve the thanks of
parents whose child en- they instruct.
Branches or Study Pursued. These are taken up
in the report somewhat in detail and the progress
made In each is there pointed out. The change In
ths lowest schools from he phonetic r. the COM
mon d script type Is mentioned, and the evidence
of teachers Is that the change Is on the Whoe IA
vorable. Two first primary readers are IN use CIV
ing an abundance of easy reading In thu sixth class
One entire reader besides supplementary reading,
is In use IN eacll OF the higher classes. The fur-
pshing If readi charts is recommended Ia the
primary schools. The members OF The School Board
have twice examined all the easses of primary anu
grammar schools above the third primary class, IN
reading.
Nc lave not space to quote further respee Ing
The branches of study pursued. Good progress in
them Is represented in the full r7port-
Special Schools. These are the kindergarten en-
Centre street, the practice school Spring street.
and the Portland school for the deaf ON Free stree
These three schools are carefully described ana
their progress noticed. Parents and friends are
espe al invited to witt the schools and become
familiar with the metho used in them In this
way they Can best Judge OF their value.
Under schoolhouses, light, heat, and ventilation
are considered. In the school report OF 1879, the
subject of properly lighting, heating and ventilat
ing our schooihouses was presented by the super
inIeudent and its importance urged. Statistics
bearing upon the same then carefully pre-
sented. Great improvements have been made in
these respects In nearly all the old school oul'd
light heat AID ventilation have been bet er pro-
vided for. This cAunot be said without some reser-
vaton. 1t has been ditficult to convince building
committees here as elsewhere, that it is better 20
expent a few dollars more, in providing proper
school furniture adequate light, heat and sir IN
schoolroom than to entail all the evils OF the lack
of them ON school chi dren.
Pentiintion. There are in use two principal meth-
ods # artificial ventilation of bhldings;-mechani4
cal means aud heat. San ventilation Is costly, anoN
SO far we nows now he more perfect systems the
n f.Iio one hv nulaOD forcing air into
room building the other by aspira ion or drawing
it OUT either may be ivrey objective when not com
biued with the other 49, The best velIti alton now
is that made by machinery creating the pow,
ers If pusion and aspiration by the forciug and
suction fans; for the that the power is under
mech Iica control, and is therefore more thorough
ly rel able. subject to less notifications from heat
and cold dryaess or hum diy, aud the force or the
direction OF he Wiud. The whole contr | may beA
10 the hands of man, upder The direction OF cne
head, which should be guided by the anemoneter
anj thermometer instead OF the feelings OF in-
mates"
Where mechanical force Is at hand this method, It
is claimei is as cheap as auy other. Whe her by
aater power, or by any other means, II can be ap
pied to our large school bulldogs is question. At
any rate it is not likely to be tried at present.
The bet ventilation now practicable with us Is By
means of heat. There age many forms OF the ap
pcatiou of this agency all depending upon the geu
era law, that ar is heated it expands and be-
mes lighter and currents OF air are produced. BY
this convection of the air, AS re ul' of lis expan-
sion by he 1t and the re of gravity, the impure
air of is carried out. while pure air is intr
uuceQ TO take It's place. II pure cOIu Is lutfO-
duced IT'S tenden,s spread the floor and low
er parts of the room while the warmer aud lighter
impure air escapes from the upper part OF the room
When pre- warm air is introduced, 1t being lighter
tn IN the impure air in the room, spreads over the
upper part of the room near the eing. but CON
stantly descends to take the place of vicious air
carried off from the lower part of the rom. The
latter is the manuer Of ing room by indi.
rect radiation and is much the most economical
manner of surely securing ventilation Whle neat
ing the ruons of building. II is the method used
in heath b. hot air furnaces as practiced now IN
the Bracket street aud Vaughan street school
ho1ses in whole or in part. 1t i also the methd
used in the Butler scho lhouse where pure cold air
is brought into air chambers containing heated
steam coil in the basement and after becoming
heated there IA convesed 10 rooms above to warm
and ventilate them. The Butler schoolhouse is the
best heated and bet ventilated school building in
the city. Olher building heated by direct radi
ation either by stoves or hea ed steam coil, in the
school rooms. In rooms so heated teachers have to
resort to doors windows and air-ttucis for
the Introduction pure air and the exit OF impure
air. Var devices have been furnished for their
assistance, such aiI-ducts with bies near the
steam co or stoves in the ro0ms narrow sla1s TO be
placed under the Window, etc. The most imper-
fectly ventilated school buildings are now the High
school, the North school d the Ientre street
buildings AID the thr, e old buildings already meu-
toned as Meeting ep tirs. Tne heating apparatus
Of Ihe Hjgh school and Centre street buildings .
especially brought to tn attention of the School
30 ard and CITY ouncil, aud the proper means of
he ing aud ventilstiug the buildings pointed out.
1he recommendations made at the close OF the
report are:
2. Sell cIion of lot and The erection OF school
house # four rooms Tor the s hool street school.
8. A ca eIui Consideration of lhe location Of the
Park street schoolhouse before the expenditure of
money upon it.
4 I'm rovements in the heating and ventilation
Of he High school and Cent'e street buildings.
5. To extend drawing into the curriculum OF the
s. 10 furnish reading charts in all class rooms
containing SIKH class primary children.
superintendent of RuriaIs.
Mr.. J. s. Gould reports that the whole num-
ber of deaths 10 the city during the municipal
year ending February 30. 1884, was III. There
were 1893 who died in other places and were
brought here for interment. The deaths we're
from the following causes:
Abscesq, 3; accident, 20; abnminses, / apo
plexy, 10; asthma, 4; disease of bladder, 3;
blood poison, IL disease of bowels, II; brain
fever, o; diseass of brain, Al Bright's disease,
10; bnrued, 2; bone sore, l; carbuncle, 1: can
Ger, %; canker, l. caiarFh, 2; childbirth, 13;
cholera infantum, 63; cnolerE morbus, 3; Con-
gestion 3; consumption, ITO; commissions, A:
Group, 8; diabetes, 2; diarrh9l, 81 diphtheria,
s; drowned, 8; dropsy, 10; dyssntery, l; cry
spelas, 4; fever, 2; general debility, 6; gam
creme, 2; gastric fever, 3; heart disease, 40;
hemorrhage, 6; infantile, 49, insanity, 1: jauD-
dice, 1; disease of kidney, 13; liver complaint,
IL; lock-jaw, /; lung disease, II; lung fever,
IA; measles, z; mumps, l; neuralgia, /; nerv'
GUS prosira.ion, !; old age, Y; pneumonia, Al;
rheumatic fever, / spinal meningitis,
5; scarlet fever, 8; stilborn, %; sui
eide, 8; teething, l. tubercuar meningitis,
L; tuberculosis, 2; tumor, 8; typhoid fever, s;
unknown, 16; whooping cough, 2; total. 80.
The following were the ages:
StilIborn. %; under one year, 119; one to
five, So; five to ten, %; ten to twenty, 80;
twsnty to thirty, 20; thirty to forty,
81; forty to fifty, 56; fifty to sixty,
81; sky to seventy, S4 seventy to
eighty, rs; eighty TO ninety, At; pinety &c one
hundred, 10; total, III; died away and brought
here fer interment. 1885, total, 9l0
There wers buried in the following ceme-
teres: Evergreen. 1853; Calvary, 26S; Forest
City, SO; Western, 80; Eastern and City Tomb,
As; Jews Yard, 1; Peaks Island, l total, S02;
ai4d in the city aud removed away, 10S; total.
e10.
OF the deaths there we're 44O males and 47O
females.