Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1892-04-06
OUR SCHOOL BUILDING.
RAKED FORE AND AFT BIT THE
GRAND JURY.
An Old Ramshackls Shell and
Breeding Place Of Disease.

tile SCHOOL OulIulHS, Hnh0s GHS III
lowing star ling assertions, but which
nearly every taxpayer III Ormsby
knows to be true:
"To say that the members of the
Grand Jury were ry much sur
prised to End the building iii the de-
lapidated condition 1t is, would be
putting it very mildly, as they found
the floors and stairs nearly worn out,
the ceiling and walls very dingy, the
plAstering badly cracked, the vim
dows loose so that they rattle very
badly when there is any wind, and
the means of ventilation very defect
i've; in fact there is no system Of ven
tilation at all worthy The name.
THE rooms are all overcrowded,
aud to show how much so will in
stance one of the rooms, % feet by
80 feet in size, occupied by "A pupils,
and ventilated by ono ventllator, 8
inches by 10 inches in size, with
whatever fresh air may enter through
the loose joints of the windows.
The seats are pla ed so close to-
gether that the pupils can barely
pass between them. The room is
heate6 by one stove, placed at the
aide of the room, with sheet-iron
scresn placed on either side. The
seats are within four feet of it, and
consequently III cold weather those
occupying those seats 60 through the
roasting process, while those farthest
away are suffering from the Id.
This room contains 7,040 cubic
Get Of air space, giving to each pupil
nearly % cubic feet of air space,
when the least air space each person
should have IS $50 cubic feet, with a
current Of frssh air constantly pass
lny rough the room in such man
! ner as not to create draughts. So 1t
is not very difficult to imagine what
the atmosphere of the room is, after
being occupied an hour by 20 persons
with over three fourths Of the neces-
sary quantity of fresh air being ex-
cluded.
"The room mentioned is fair
sample of the other rooms i'll the
building, all being over crowded and
very poorly ventilated.
The building is simply shell,
being constructed in the cheapest
manner, especially the roof, which
BIAS raftsrs made Of pinch by 3-inch
scantling, and the trusses, which are
supposed to support the roof and
carry he ceiling If the upper story,
do not appear to be of any practical
use for which they were attended.
There are no cohveniences or COM
forts that should be attached to a
school building, the absence of which
endangers the health of the pupils at
the present time, and in many in
stances the future health of the pupil
is marrsd, SO that they go through
life suffering from disease contracted !
in those foul smelling and over
crowded rooms.
Ia consequence of the crowded
of the rooms the pupils
would, in case of fire, or any other
exciting cause, for = hurried exit
from the building run great risk of
being severely, If not fatally, injured
owing to the insufficient means of
exit by the stairrays, they being cons
structed in such manner, that in an
excitement, the pupils coming from
the different rooms and meeting at
the head of the stairs would become
jammed in mass that would result
lisastrously.
The condition of things in the ]
yard and the outward appearance of {
the buildings in no improvement on
what has been said Of the inside. :
On the north side is large platform
or area, covered with plank nearly
rotted away, which with the contents
IF the closet vaults, oozing through ,
The surface Of the ground, makes ,
most excellent producer of disease {
germs, which are gently waited |
through the the aforesaid 'ventilators }
nto the school rooms, which is I'M
Ivoidable a. there is no system of
leverage or drainage connected with
he building. =
SIN view of the foregoing facts,
he Grand Jury calls tho attention of :
and tax-payiag citizens in
General, to visit the schools in this
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