The Portland daily press., 1888-07-09
NORTH scooL


the report says:
We have in this building an entire absence
| OF ventilation, excepting what may be secured
| through the windows, with the accompany
ing danger OF draughts upon the heads Of the
| children In these crowded rooms. In some
| OF these rooms the smell Of the organic mat
| ter OF expired air Is very strong and disa-
greeable. Two Of the rooms only were test
| ed for carbonic acid In their atmosphere and
| the quantity found was respectively p and
| 20 parts in the 10000 The whole plan Of the
building deserves condemnation.
In the basement, another architectural Gu
| riOsity was found which now has no santa
| ry significance, as 1t has gone out Of use. 1t
Is interesting merely as showing what sense
| less ideas sometime prevail, when an i'm
| pulse seizes somebody TO supply large
school with fresh air. 1t consists in three
wooden ducts starting from basement win
| dows, each giving off two branch ducts,
inches In diameter, probably intended to
supply air TO the II rooms in the south end
| of the building.
Instead Of water-closets, there are priyies,
which are placed in a shed back Of the school
building, and only five feet from 1t. The
vaults beneath the shed are with difficulty
accessible, and are emptied only once year.
The boys urinals are In an adjoining she'd
The whole system Of dispOsing Of excreta is
utterly abominable, and should be immedi-
ately abolished.
cAsco STREET PRIMARY.
The report complains Of the lighting Of the
rooms in this building. which 1t says is in
sufficient and defective. The building Is
heated by steam radiators. Foul air ventila-
ton Is sought by means Of openings into
nues, which are not heated.
CHESTNUT STREET PRIMARY.
The report says the lighting of the rooms
In this building Is from the rear and one
side, and the lateral lighting presents the
usual fault, that one half the rooms have 1t
from the right instead Of from the left side.
Concerning the system Of ventilation the re-
port says that lit Is better than none, but
not what 1t should be. The air Of one Of the
rooms on the first floor showed 16 parts, and
one on the second floor Is parts Of carbonic
acid in the ten Thousand"
THE SMALLER SCHOOL.
Concerning the heating and ventilation Of
this school the report says: The heating is
wholly by direct radiation from steam pipes,
which are arranged around the walls OF the
rooms. The fault in the original plan ia not
providing for the admission Of fresh air has
apparently been felt. and an attempt has
been made to supply the deficiency by means
OF movable wooden hoods, or fresh inlets,
which, when a window is raised,
take the air from the opening thus
steam pipes. The length Of the section ofpipe,
however, with which the air comes In con-
tact, Is not great enough to warm the air
sufficiently; consequently, the inflow Of cold
air is uncomfortable for the feet of the chill
dren. and this device for admitting fresh air
Is but little used.
The disposal of foul air, with little nod
lncation OF the original plan, and an insig-
nincant increase in the cost of the building,
might have been very satisfactory. The
rooms on each floor are ranged on both sides
OF the hall in pairs, and between the two
rooms OF each pair a chimney stack runs
from the floor OF the basement to the roof
Into the flnes thus formed, the foul-air reg
lsters OF the rooms on either side of it are
set. The amount Of work which they do Is
inadequate to the wants Of the school for
the reason, first, that the foul-air fues are
OF insufficient capacity, and secondly, that
they are insufficiently heated. One Of the
iiues is heated by the smoke pipe from the
boiler, the other Is not heated. II the fues
had been made Of ample size and provision
had been made for heating by placing steam
coils within them, or, at least, in the one
which is notiheatedlwith the smoke pipe, an
efficient and trustworthy system Of ventila-
ton might have been secured.