Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-06-27
SUGGESTIONS FOR CONSIDERATION.
Or. Porter Has Been Taking Measurements in the
Old School Building.

Tire amount space each child should
have III the primary school II 10 square
feet: when over ten years 20square feet.
Height Of walls should be at least ten
feet, but in the stone building they are
twelve feet In rooms | and ? there are
$50 square feet Of floor space with seats
for some 80 pupils per room But allow
Ing . square feet per child there is floor
space for but 43 children. Yet in room
there are 50 childrens names on the
register In room 3 there are Sl4 square
feet of floor space o. room for 40 pupils
of ten years of age There are seats for
60 and 50 enrolled. Room f. same size
as 3, has seats for 81 with space for 40
and an enrolment of a. Rooms ) and
8 seat 4S pupils each, and enroll 43 and
40 pupils respectively, but have floor
space for but 80 pupils in each room.
There should be 800 cubic feet of air
space per capita in every schoolroom
Rooms 1, 2, 5 and 6 contain each about
1854 cubic feet of air space or enough
for 81 pupils in each o. these four rooms
Yet room /, the primary room with
ventllating flue not half the size it should
be and with only 30 percent of the mini
mum amount Of window glass high
authority demands, and floor space for
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eighty names enrolled on the register
Rooms and each contain air space
| TOR 80 students
The hot air registers in all the six
rooms of the building are placed in the
wall some eight feet above the floor and
are 10 inches square less the scroll work
which | estimate at one-third the capac-
| ity of the register This gives an est
mated inlet for hot air of 241 square
inches per register, and one hot air reg
| lister per room 'Ventilating hues
should have one-third greater capacity
| than warm air hues, and should never
| be made in outer walls i building.
Room 1 has ventilating rGRrter at the
| floor of estimated capacity of 1aS square
| inches Room has me in an outside
chimney of SO square inches; also one in
| the floor Of 121 inches Room has iiue
| III outside chimney capacity 46 inches,
and register in floor 12l inches. Room
| 4 has outside fue of 1873 inches; room
one of 200 square inches; room one of
| 81 square inches Ventilation to be
sufficient, must furnish at LEASE 800 cubic
feet of pure warm air per hour to every
occupant AS little fire has been used
| .ately. | have been unable to measure
| she velocity Of the air in the ventilating
| iues Assuming that the hot pure air
| comes into each of these rooms moving
| tt the rate of five feet per second, en-
| ingh pure air would be furnished to
| apply 60 pupils per room if the foul air
| Duld only he drawn from the rooms.
| Nore Of tire ventilating fues are LIS
| enough, but by aid of the windows it
| night be possible to have fair ventila
| ion.
! In conclusion let me say that in this
! building there are seats for 800 children,
| With an enrolment of 800 and only floor
| 7pace for $50, and air space for 202. Two
| rooms have only 80 per cent. of the
minimum amount of window glass, three
have fifty and one sixty per cent that
authority demands Five rooms are
whitewsshed and one room has desir-
able blue-grey tint Some advocate
tearing down the stone building It
seems to be too good building to tear
down. The hardest fault to remedy
Is the defective lighting In the room
over the primary room skylight could
be made; and the primary room might
he lighted better by making long win
dow in the partition over the black
board. These six rooms have air space
for 202 pupils. Two hundred children
are all that should be sheltered in them.
There are one hundred children more
who must have new school house
Why not build one ward primary school
this year and try the experiment? AS
DR.. Suttle suggests, let it be made of
wood and then it can be easily remodel
ed when necessary. Let it be lighted as
well or better than room !, in the high
school building. which has five aud seven
tenths feet of floor space to one foot of
window glass, and is the best lighted
school room III the city, and yet not up
to the standard of lighting. Let the
floors be made of hardwood and not
Eastwood, which wears away and ferns
dust to iritate the lungs of teacher and
pupils. Let the chimney be large one
with double flue for smoke and ventila-
ton. Let it be an up-to-date school
house 80 it may not soon have to be re-
modelled c. V. Z.
Figures can lie, they say but artists
i sometimes rpuuire their model m sit