The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1913-09-19
FRESH AIR Vs.TUBERCULOSlS.
Perfect Ventilation Of Vital Importance
in the Schools.
Mr., Jay o'Daniel, County supt.


To such questions as Shall we
teach music and drawing?' or
When shall we begin teaching his
tory?" there are two sides which
may be eloquently defended. But
there is only one side to the ques-
tion Are ay school conditions
Which initiate against the health of
the child defensible?" Not a few
children who enter the first grade
healthy and strong become weak
and feeble within few years
Many other children have attacks
of contagious and, therefore, pre-
yentable diseases. Some children
have their eyesight impaired. No
school or school system is success
fnl which fail to make vigorous eff
.fcrts to prevent these things.
Tie writer was principal of a
school in New York state when the
State Department OF. -Eai.catJj M. Re, rev,
quired test OF the ss--,,ss,...s'I
of all students to be made by The
teachers, Charts were furnished to
test the eyesight, and instructions
were given regarding SIMPLE - tests
to detect defective hearing In his
school of $50 pupils were found not
less than eight e&tIsset.~a.Aass.arssses
daily suffering either physical pain,
or lack of mental development, be-
cause of defects of the eyes orr
ears, Two of the cases were InU5s.sssc-
distressing. Probably in many 9th
er schools all over the State a
SIMILAR condition prevailed. The
making of tests by the teachers has
been fruitful of such excellent re-
suits in New York that a law as
passed by the last Legislature re-
curing more elaborate examina-
ton 70 be made in every school of
the State by physicians.
This plan of a regular inspection
OF school children by physicians in
order to detect and correct various
defects, to check possible epidemics
u contagious diseases, and TO find
and change the details of improper
building and equipment of schools,
is the thing to be ultimately at
tpiDed practical and valuable
first step is the careful inspection
by tie teachers.
Many schools of this State prob
ably have water supply of doubt
fu' purity. We know that germs of
typhoid fever may be carried tor
long distance underground. and pass
through the surface springs into our
water supply. They may be carried
for a long distance down streams
to infect the people below. Conse-
quently,every water supply ought to
be suspected till 1t has been test
ed A letter to Professor E. II.
Mark, State Sanitary Engineer,
Bowling Green, will bring, prepaid,
container with directions for send
ing sample of your water supply.
The container may be sent back
express collect, and the water will
be examined free of charge.
In one school of this State. not
'ioLg.ago, 's2'"per vsnr- of iie p1Ip.is
were found to be infected with
hookworm. OF course that is not
t.g.sal case: but there .. are e, Ger
ta.nly many schools in which
considerable number of pupils are
at St he.
grnNth. of the body. exhausts the
energy which ought to find an out
le. in constructive physical and
A ms.Ita ..s effort and sileetIaily pre-
vents the development OF the enid |
y IS .-..-tn.-.-the
State Bacteriologist will bring a con
tainer, in which may be sent a
.ss.aaum.plee- Of the ha&sll discharge FOL
~: -
OF charge, In this way the disease
may be quickly and accurately di-
agnosed. The cure of the disease
u.ay be quickly, easily and cheaply
made.
Better than curing typhoid fe-
yer, or hookworm, is the prevention
of the diseases. In each case the
infection is spread from bowel dis
charges that are oarelessly disposed
of; namely, thrown out in the open,
or thrown into streams, or put into /!
shallow vaults which are left open
and uncared for. A letter to DR.. A.
T. Mccormick, Bowling Green, stat
ing the number of pupils in your
school, will bring, free of charge,
plans for sanitary preyles, which
may be erected at reasonable cost
by competent workmen, and will
prevent the spread of these filth
diseases among the school children.
More children, however, suffer
from bad ventilation than from all
other comfortable causes combined. /
1t used to be thought that tenn
perature of ~ degrees was neces-