Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-02-21
EDUCATORS BEGIN AT RIGHT END.
Are Looking After Rural Schools as Well
as Higher Institutions.
Continued from last week.


DR.. Gaines paper was very practical
and we CLEAN few thoughts and give
in full the system of heating and ventil
alton, which is so simple it can be used
readily liz any small school house
The board should enforce stringent
rules in matters pertaining to health
school room should be thoroughly
cleaned swept once a day after pupils
have left at night, and scrubbed once a
week. The busting should be done with
damp cloths New floors should be oil.
cd with hard oil and walls kept clean.
Whitewash is good. Blackboards should
be either of slate OF painted with some
good preparation. This may save some
childs eyes Seats should be of proper
height. Drinking water is source of
danger and should be looked after. Out
honses should he kept clean by use of
disenfectants such as lime eopperas
and road dust Following Ia an extract
from DR. Gaines paper:
In THE scheme, which Is Intended
more for ventilation than for heating, a
rouad upright stove large enough to
heat the building, is required. Around
which place sheet iron, or gaivaniZ ed
iron, Jacket the heighth of the stove,
and sbout. eight inches from the tioor
supported by sufficient number Of legs
and large enough In circumference TO
allow Of twelve TO sixteen inches Of space
between it and the stove. Have in the
Jacket a door corresponding with the
door in the stove So much for the stove
and JACKET. Provision ia made for a
supply of fresh air by cutting q hole
Sx10 or l0xi2 inches in the outer toun-
dation wall, or even larger, according to
the size of the room Also cut hole the
same size as the hole in the wall, in the
floor under the stove, over which place
q common floor register. Connect the
two openings with tin or wooden pipe
of corresponding dimensions. Thus you
have provided means whereby q sup
ply of fresh air can be supplied TO the
room based upon modern principles of
ventilation. The outer air is conveyed
to the room through the pipe, confined
near the stove by the jacket until warm,
when by its own gravity it is ditfused
through the atmosphere of the room.
For the removal of foul, disease-germ
and poison -ladened sir which being
heavier than the wsrm pure air, sinks
to the floor have constructed in the
room from the floor up, double CHM
ney, the two compartments being sep
arated by a thin brick wall or partition.
One of the compartments to be'used for
smoke ss any other ordinary chimney,
the other compartment in the bottom
of which leave an opening the size of
the one in the floor, over which also
place register, is for the removal Of
the cold foul air from the floor. The
stove pipe heats the entire chimney,
warns the air in the other compart-
ment, which by its natural gravitation
upward, causes the drsught. This
scheme for the removal of foal air is al
so based upon modern principles of ven
tilation and is no experiment, The idea
IN its entirety is simple and to my mind
perfectly practicable, and has the very
essential features of being adaptable to
any building and Of being cheap. II it
is required to heat the room quickly.
close the register under the stove for a
short time. G.R G.