Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-10-17
Bethel IMPROVEMENT
Large Turnout at the Chapel Last
Saturday
MEMBERSHIP PASSES HUNDRED MARK

Or. Dulin Reads Interesting and In
structive Paper on How to Keep TIT
School Room up to the Highes
Standard of Healthfulness and Com
,, fort.
Correspondence The Yorkville Enquirer
Glover, R. F. D. october 13.-FullJ
one hundred Of the one hundred ant
twenty-eight members now constitut'
ing the total enrolment Of the Bethe
Improvement association were pres
ent at the meeting held at Bethe
Chapel last Saturday night, and al
usual the proceedings were not only
interesting, but pleasant and profit
able.
DR.. T. N. Dulin the president, was
In the chair, and the leading feature Of
the programme was the reading by
him of a highly instructive paper OF
the subject of preserving the health Of
the children in the school room. He en-
phasized the Importance of a judicious
regard for proper cleanliness, proper
lighting, proper heating, proper venti'
lation, and gave full instructions as tc
the best disinfectants and how to use
them.
The paper was discussed in very
practical and comprehensive mannel
by several Of the members, including
Miss Lottie Belle Simril, G. l. Suggs
W. P. Boyd and A. c. Harper, the two
first named speaking at some Length
and the two last named more briefly.
Before adjournment, Free Silver
school house was selected as the place
of the next meeting, and the last Sat.
urday in October at o'clock p. m. al
the time.
Following is the full text Of DR.. Du.
Inns paper:
"As some of our schools are already
open and others will be open in the
near future, 1t occurs to me as especi'
ally fitting that our attention be d.
rected to some Of the things in con-
nection with them that suggest room
for improvement, and I am sure that
we cannot fail to profit by due consid-
Grafton Of the subject. -....
Cleanliness.
1T Is needless for me to say that oul
school rooms should be kept clean;
but when I say kept clean I do moi
mean simply sweeping and dusting
although this is about all that is done
in the majority Of cases.
when we sweep our floors we usu-
ally raise a cloud Of dust and this dust
is usually laden with disease produc-
ing germs. One Of the ways to keep
down the dust is to sprinkle before
sweeping, but this causes the dirt to
stick to the floor and to that extent
operates against the object sought
Nevertheless, however, 1t Is better to
sprinkle before sweeping than to sweep
without sprinkling.
"The floors Of all school rooms
should be mopped at least once week
with some antiseptic solution such as
say Kreso, of from one to fifty to one
to one hundred. L mean by this one
pint of Kreso to fifty to one hundred
pints of water. There are other anti
septics just as good If not better than
Kreso, and I only mention Kreso be-
cause 1t is cheap, and can be purchas-
ed at almost any drug store. Tarco
and many other coal tar products are
as cheap and just as good as Kreso as
a disinfectant.
Further, our school rooms should be
disinfected once a month with a solu-
ton of formaldehide. One pint Of a
forty per cent solution is sufficient for
a room II feet wide by Is feet long and
from 9 to IL feet high. The way to
use this disinfectant is to close all the
doors and windows and sprinkle or
throw the desired amount Of formald-
hide over the room. Keep the room
closed for twenty-four hours and then
open 1t in order to admit fresh air. The
formaldehide may be introduced on
Friday afternoon after the dismissal
Of the school. Then let the doors,
windows and other openings be closed
until Saturday afternoon. Open the
room up on Saturday and let 1t remain
open until Monday morning when it
will be ready for use again without
danger or discomfort to the occu-
pants. Formaldehide will not injure
anything or stain the most delicate ia
brio. If it is properly used by the
method described our children will not
be liable to contract diseases from
that class Of germs which remain in
houses from year to year, and we will
save doctors bills, as we'll as great
deal of anxiety.
Ventilation.
"Of course, every school room should
have plenty Of fresh air and as a maj
ter Of fact most of them do not have
it. Because of the way e great ma
jority of our buildings are constructed
we cannot get sufficient ventilation.
We frequently have twenty to thirty
pupils in a room not over sixteen feet
wide by twenty-four feet long by nine
high, but I am glad to say that this
overcrowding is not as common as II
was a few years ago.
Instead Of our school houses being
constructed after any old plan, with
out regard to ventilation, light and
heating, they should be planned by our
very best architects. But as the
houses in which our schools are to be
taught at least for this year are al
ready constructed, we need give this
subject very little consideration at this
time. We must do the best we can
with what we have. We should at all
times have a current Of fresh air cir
culating through every school room
Windows may be raised three to four
inches at the bottom and lowered six
to eight inches at the top. OF course
no one should sit directly in this cur
rent of air, especially if it is very cold