Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1913-08-25
GREAT ADVANCE IN
HYGIENE NOTED
IN THE PUBLIC
SCHOOLS
Common Drinking Cup, Bad
Air and Dust Flee Before
Progress, Says Speaker at
Hygiene Congress.
OPEN-AIR SCHOOL Is
WORTH LEGATION
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Buffalo, y. Y. aug. Walter
a. Kilham. of Boston. delivered an
address this morning before the
Fourth International Congress ON
school Hygiene ON the subject of the
hygienic construction Of school
housed from the standpoint of the
architect He spoke In part as fol-
lows:
$50 much advance has been made
In the general matter of the hyglenic
construction of school houses that u
seems AK ID the last word must have
been said as far as the Architects arc
concerned. No longer is school room
air rebreathcd by fifty pairs OF lungs:
the common drinking cup has been
replaced by the bubbling stream.
dust, once the bugbear OF janitors,
has fled before the combination of
rounded corners and vacuum clean
er, and the school room rs sunny
well lighted, warmed To uniform
temperature, and Ia fact almost stor-
ilizcd by the various devices calculat-
ed to conserve the health OF teach
ors aud pupils. The schoolhouse of
today, compared with that of thirty
years ago, seems To be almost a per
feet structure
But there Is another side Ia this.
This germ-proof dustloss building is
also very costly one. city after
city passes large appropriations to
produce the most modern school
house that can be- built. with their
complicated equipment the construc.
ton OF these buildings brings for
midablc load on tho helpless taxpay-
er. How many OF the requirements
of one of these buildings are tads
ana how many ATE ia the class OF
things really worth while?
About the most important single
item Of schOolhouse expense, both In
construction and maintenance. b
that OF heating and ventilation. Too
day u twenty room school building.
costing say $4,000. OF ordinary plan
has to cover 900 more square feet
and contain perhaps 10000 more
cubic feet ON account ol space de-
voted To vertical lines OF stacks.
Those stacks built OF brick or other
iirCproof materials. together with tho
horizontal ducts, cost perhaps Si0,-
OOO. Tho cost OF the plenum system
over direct heating apparatus IN such
a building would bee about $4,000.
4 We NNANM NWlNNMNNUAANM VI 'NNA ANfAh ~
be variously estimated, but probably
amounts Co not less than 20 or 100
tons per year
Experiments with open air GLASSES
have perhaps not yet demonstrated
that perfection has been attained,
but the testimony In general shows
that pupils In these rooms make a
great advance both mentally and
al. Ia -. !
school work, especially of the kind
done In study hours, could be- prof
itably carried on In rooms built with
windows only on one side so as Ia
eliminate draugh,s and made Ca open
the entire size of the brick opening
and kept open, the extreme cold IN
winter possibly being tempered 10y
direct steam coils REGULATIONS and
blackboard work could be conducted
In absolutely open rooms ON tho
roof made with glass sides 10 close
when the wind IL too strong was
about To Soy when Il stormed, but IN
these times when the no-school sig
mai sounds al the least intimati0n of
rain. the remark seems unnecessary
I'm England the open fireplace
with its IRE has long been the indis-
ponsahle adjunct of every school
room with the help OF easement
windows kept literally open these
nroplaces have kept the classroom air
fairly good. although the rooms are
frequently small and badly crowded
from our point Of view, but now the
central ventilation Ia creeping In and
the fireplace draught IL prevented
although I found last fall one intells-
gent schoolmaster to whom l com