Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-02-15
r. G. DODSON.
PAPER PREPARED BY MR.. HE'LL
MAN.
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thermometer indicating the tempera-
ture (and there should be one in every
school room should hang about waist
| high from the floor and at least one
foot from an outer wall.
Ventilatian. Air is the prime neces-
sity of life. Food or water may be alb
stained from for a considerable time,
and if we doubt its purity or whole
someness, may discard that which is at
| hand, and obtain others of different
character; but we must breath the
atmosphere that surrounds us, no
matter what its character, or we i'm
mediately die. Hence the paramount
necessity of having it pure: A matter
! by far too often neglected. Taken, a
| hundred parts of air, we find that it
| contains about tWenty-one parts
oxygen and seventy odd parts nitrogen
with small quantities of carbonic acid,
moisture, organic matter, etc. BY
respiration and combustion air becomes
| impoverished; that is the oxygen
diminishes while the carbonic acid,
organic matter and suspended matter
increases. The amount of carbonic acid
is itself within certain limits, is not so
material, but it is highly important as
measure of the amount of organic
matter contained, which is really the
dangerous impurity. Therefore, air
vitiated by respiration is much more
dangerous than when the carbonic acid
is the result of combustion. The
amount of impurity given off by human
beings varies with size, age, sex, work
etc. Under ordinary circumstances it
amounts to about six cubic feet of
carbonic acid per head in ten hours
This would require about three thous-
and cubic feet of fresh air per hour per
head for it's proper publication. The
subject Of the supply of fresh air
to the school rooms, especially of
the county, receives scarcely any
practical attention by those having the
matter in charlie. 1t is commonly
thought that the rooms are well warm
ed, every requirement for the well be.
ing of the scholars met. In reality the
too much heating, without the CORES.
ponding supply of pure air, increases
the child's dangers to all sorts of dis
elses. In furnishing the supply of
fresh air it is also important that it be
done gradually, and without direct
draft. Heatingl apparatus of various
designs have been devised for drawing
fresh air from outside the building,
and distributing it warmed and puri-
fed throughout the building, which
should be installed, III someone of their
various notifications, in every school
building. 1t is encouraging to note
that the most progressive and intelli-
gent of our educators are showing
more and more disposition to accept
the verdict of sanitarians that the con-
struction, lighting, heating, ventilation
and drainage of school building
MUST BE THE BEST REGARDLESS OF
COST, and that in the end the expense
is significant as compared within the
incalculable saving intsickness and loss
of life.
CLEANLINESS: Filth is one of the
prime factors in the production of
and propagation of most epidemic dis.
eases and devastating plaques as we'll
as many individual disorders. Every
square inch of surface of every school
room and its furniture should be first
thoroughly scrubbed with soap and
water and then gone over with dis
injecting solution at least twice each
year. Every good housekeeper recog-
nizes and practices this principle. She
intuitively appreciates its Importance
without any elaborate process of
apriori reasoning. This is just as i'm.
portant for the child in school as for
the child at home. The old darkey
preacher recognized and taught the
need of cleanliness when he told his
congregation that ''de flies and dc bugs
nevah roost long on mammy's soap
dish"
1t is equally important that all out