The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-12-28
THE HOAMD OF "DUC4rI0N.
Business Transacted at Last Nights Meet
 ing,

Business transacted at Last Nights Meet
 ing.
 At the meeting of the board of edu- cation last evening all the members were present except Messrs. CumoY and Stoddard. The following recom- mendations Were presented by the com mittee on schools; That Mrs. Hortense D. Crossby be placed in charge of room s strong school att salary at the rate of $G50 per year to take the place of W. C. Der. Dickerman, whose term .of service closed with the expiration of last term the new appointment to date from the beginning of the next term; that Mrs. Eyelena V. Rockwell be transferred from the substitute list to the position of assistant teacher in room $ Strong school at the same sal ary as she formerly r .cIved; that Miss Mary J. OMeara be transferred from the substitute list to the posi- ton Of extra teacher in Wclch district; that A. O. Abbott be continued as prin- cipal of Strong school for the remainder of the present year at the same sal ary; that the following be inserted in the rules of the board after the first paragraph of section 13S, Any child who has been exposed to any one of the foregoing diseases shall not be per mtted tp return to school for at least two weeks after the last exposure and then may return only upon a certificate from the health officer; also that the rule recommended by the board of health July 15, 1890, and adopted by the board be amended to read as follows, "Children may return to school in cases of scarlet fever, after nine days, diph- heria after tWerty-eght days typhoid fever after tWenty-cight days, measles after twenty-seVen days. In each case the number of days refers to the time after the appearance of the disease and not recovery from it, In case of scar let fever ani dinhtheria the child must receive from the health officer cor- titicate as provided in the first of this section; that the leave of absence of Miss Amra M Brennan of the Skinner school he extended to April 1, 1896 The rule in regard to amendment Of ! the rules was suspended and the res olutiOn rela ting to contagious diseases 1 was adopted. The diseases referred tC in section 13S are smallpox, scarlet fever. dlphtheria, membraneous croup and typhus fever. The other recon mendations were adopted.
 l The building committee recommended 1 that some change ba made in the heat l ing apparatus of Edwards street school 1 and also that new steam pipes be 1 put in the basemen of Welch school l for the benefit of the Kindergarten Both recommendations were adopted and the committee was empowered tc make the necessary alterations. The committee also asked for the opinion of the board regarding the licensing of i saloons within 200 feet of school houses | The matter was discussed at lengtf and it was finally voted that the sec. retary of the board be instructed to re- quest the excise commissioners to nott. 1 fy the board of education of all licenses asked for saloons within 200 feet o schools. The general idea of the board
 was that nothing should be done by 1 it to influence the commissioners ir refusing a. license to a business already established within the limit. but that i applications for new licenses within
 gted by the board.
 The committee on special insuuc-
 ton recommended that "MoGtrr i French Lyrics" be adopted in the higl school as a study of this text is nec essary for college entrance require
 ments, and also that Miss Fannie A l Terrill be appointed as teacher in tn, ! high evening school at a compensation
 nf $1.5O per evening. IL was voted
 that as soon as he notifications o
 application for licenses as per the
 previous vote, were presented to tn,
 board. they should be referred to the building committee.
 ] The regular business having been dis ] posed of the matter of elecUng a sec retarN of the board for the ensuing yea ! was brought up and on motion of Mr 1 Moran it was voted that the presiden ! of the board be instructed to cast tho unanimous vote of the board for MT ] Day. the present secretary. Mr Day
 has been connected with the board O
 education for thirty-thrgc years. tiy'
 years as superintendent of schools. on,
 year as d member of the board anC 1 tWenty-seven years as clerk of thu
 board He began his duties in connec
 ton with the board in 1S59 and has al ways proved an exceedingly etticien
 official He is preparing a history O
 New Haven schools. covering a perio. of POO years.
 Anthony Carroll attended last night meeting and was dlsposing of ticket
 10 his lecture to the members of th
 board.
 Fled From the City.
 London. Dee. 2y.-A dispatch iron ConstantinopI" says great number 0