Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-25

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Unofflcially the school board has
learned OF the action of the health
board Tuesday night in suggesting that
a committee be named by the board of
education to discuss how sanitary con-
ditions In Los Angeles schools may be
improved. and as soon as the school
directors can take formal action 1T is
believed conference will be held.
The questions most vitally affecting
pupils of which the boards will take
cognizance are air, light and sanitary
arrangements In the public school
buildings, especially in the older struc-
lures.
School directors discussed the prob
lem Yesterday and declared they would
act when the board met.
Having oversight of all public build
ings 1t Is the duty of the health board
to look into all questions regarding the
health of the people, and in line with
that policy our schools have received
attention again." remarked Secretary
N. S. Averill yesterday. I'VE are glad
to have any suggestions and bear them
in mind.
No Funds Available
"Our great trouble is to find the
means to keep the schools in perfect
shape We have in mind the health of
the pupils, but we are limited by the
amount of money we have to spend,
and we will be only too glad to remedy
conditions as fast as we have the
means.
Our architects endeavor to see that
all light in the rooms comes over the
left shoulders of the pupils and that
they can see the blsckboards without
straining their eye
Teachers are instructed as to regu-
latng the inflow of fresh air too.
Frequently complaint is made that
the porta BILE schools get too hot That
IS true only occasionally, and then
everyone who is indoors suffers. Teach
ers in these cases hold sessions out in
the yards and under the trees when
possible. The portable buildings are
only temporary, and we house the chill
dren in permanent buildings as fast IS
we can.
Our officials will doubtless act
promptly on the health boards sugges-
tions as soon as a rem edy can be found.
We have the pupils interests at
heart"
The Report
!, The report which calls attention to
theeeonditions in the public schools.eis
as follows:
I'VE find many Of the school buildings
very lily ventilated. In some Of the
class rooms the means of natural VEN
tilation have been sacrificed to the idea
of avoiding cross lights by placing
windows and transoms on one side of
the room only. thereby leaving two
adjacent sides of the rooms without
any openings, and consequently the in
cluding angle of the room without ade-
quate circulation of fresh air.
This manner of constructing class
rooms has become a, very serious mat
ter to the many school children thus
subjected to vitiated aid; and at the
same time the best light is not supplied
to many of these rooms by this in
flexible rule. We here quote from DR..
Ed +. Willoughby's Hygiene for Stu
dents: e..
Much has been written in con-
demnation of cross lighting, as if it
were some way specially injurious. but
the objections thereto are groundless,
since nothing can be better than a clear,
shadowless uniform light, assuming of
course that the direct rays of the sun
are excluded
Badly Ventilated Rooms
Such class rooms may be found in
the following buildings: Fourteenth
street. East Vernon avenue, Castelar,. |
annex to Thrtieth street, South Main
street. four rooms in Tenth street.
north room in Thirty-ninth street, JEFF
ferson street, Sixteenth street. new part
of Mckinley avenue and Bridge street
school.
I'VE. find the bungalows or small
temporary buildings are very warm
during the hot days. The temperature
of these buildings as now constructed
Is very difficult to regulate in hot or
cold wea ther. We have been urging and |
still insist that ceilings be placed in
these buildings and that attics be VEN
tilated by large windows.
I'VE call attention to the following |
ccnditions:
Seventh Street school-The side
walks in frona of the building should
be raised to higher grade so that the
children may enter the school in wet
weather without wading.
Faucets, Transoms, Fans
Gates Street school-Water faucets
needs repairs; CLOSETS not properly
flushed because Of defective fixtures.
Griffin Avenue school-Many of the
transoms are out of repair and cannot
be utilized.
''Fifty-fourth Avenue school-The
closets are in the basement and while
the fan is driving air into the class
rooms the foul air from the toilets is
pulled from the ventilatng shaft
through the opening of the stoves. then
conveyed to the class rooms. The fan
should be so separated by partition
from this shaft as to draw pure air
from the outside of the building.
Avenue Twenty-three school-Insuf-
ticient water supply. ''.'I
Bridge Street school-Insuf fficient
water closet accommodations.
First Street school-Insuh hicient
closet and urinal accommodations.
Cambria Street and Norwood Street
al ho aH.k.g /