Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-11-22


will go still furthur and agree that back
drafts can not occur if the stack heaters
are fred at all times. But the exhaust
fiues must be kept warm twenty-four
hours every day, seven days in the week
and three hundred and sixty-five and
one fourth days every year. Otherwise
you may be just as sure of the occur
anee of back drafts as of the rising and
setting of the sun.
| | make the statement, without fear of
contradiction, that no school has ever
fulfilled the conditions necessary for
the prevention of back drafts; and
further, that nowhere has this system
been in use where back drafts have not
often occurred. When you are told by
the users of this system that back drafts
do not occur, it simply means that they
have failed to make intelligent and
systematic observations. | have fire.
quently observed them and have repeat
edly demonstrated their presence in this
building. not only when there was no
fire in the furnaces, but also after the
furnaces have been going for half day.
Not only do these back drafts pollute
the school rooms with the stencil from
the closets, but there is a graver dang
er. Children affected with contsgioua
disease not infreqIently find their way
into school and the c.ntagion of the di-
sease, abounding in the excretions, can
by a single back draft, be diffused
throughout the entire building. and
precipltate an epidemic that may carry
to the grave your child and mine Gen-
tlemen, this is no imaginary danger. |
Personally, shall feel much relieved |
when this closet system shall have been |
removed from our basement.
But closets of some kind we must |
have What shall we provide? Nature
has been kind to us and has provide d |
ideal conditions for drainage We have
abundant slope and nearby streams to
carry and purify the sewerage Let
water system, with plumbing and sew
ers, be installed and you have some
thing that is sanitary, requires little
care and is not liable to get out of order.
With the water system, adequate fire
protection can be provided that will in
a few years save in the cost of fire in
surance enough to pay for the entire
system.
Where this combined ventilating and
dry closet system is already in use. man
ifestly, the first requirement from
sanitary standpoint, is to divorce the
school rooms from the closet system, so
there can be no possibility of inter-com-
municati"n. Then if you so choose, in
stall separate warming and ventilat-
ing system for the closets-the closet
exhaust fiues to be entirely separate
from those of the school rooms. But
better plan would be to remove the
closet system to separate building COM
municating with the yard and which
may also communicate with the build
ing by means of well ventilated cor
ridor. Even with water system, a
separate building furnishes the most
sanitary arrangement. Indeed, be-.
lieve the time is coming when the plac-
ing of general closet systems under the
same roof with school rooms will be re-
garded as a public nuisance. "A
In conclusion, crave your Indulgence
for dwelling at such length on the
Smead System. But / assure you l
have observed the system with perfect
fairness, hoping that my theoretical
objections to it would be disproved in
practice. My worst fears, however,
have been abundantly verified. Some
OF you, gentlemen, may be tempted to
install the system, through the seduct-
i've influence of those whose only inter-
est is vested in the commission on a
sale. Let me beg of you that, before
you yield to the wiles of the tempters,
you at least seek the ADVICE OF s,anitar-
ians not financially interested in the
sale.