Norwich bulletin., 1914-04-17
DEATHS HERE IN MARCH WERE 46
Norwich Rate Practically the Same State Average 1s6 for State, 1894 for NoFwich-Pneunona the Chief Contagious Diseases were Few.

ing system is installed. the school room air becomes in the fall, winter and spring so dry that if causes sore throats, colds. bronchitis and many other ills.
 The outdoor and open window schools, intended for sickly children, have shown the wonderful effects of fresh cool, moist air, the children in most cases reseining their health and also advancing more rapidly with their studies than well children breath ing the regular. stuffy. warm, dry air of the school rooms. These fresh air schools have multiplied the last few years so that now there are hundreds of them in the United States.
 For some time we have been feel ing our way in this matter and we are now ready, with your cooperation, to put into practice the following plan. To give your children fresh air, cool enough and moist enough to be most healthful and to lessen greatly the danger from contagious diseases. we plan, as far as advisable, to have the windows open most of the time on one side of their school room and, so far as are able, to regulate the temperature, keeping ii between e4 and 6S degrees We shall protect the chil- dren from drafts and give them more physical exercise than in the past, and we ask you to provide them with suffi = cient clothing for the cooler air or let
  In this case, through the kindness of friends, we can supply some extra clothing
 If you fear to have your children in the cooler, fresher, moister air that we propose for them, please talk the | matter over with your physician. who, I am confident. can reassure you that the open-window room will mean few CT colds. better health generally and | better progress in school work. z k 4ssNn,z- r-f- us or if any of your children need spe- ciai attention. kindly confer freely | with the teacher, principal or super l intendent of schools
 Cordially yours, w A WHEATLEY. Superintendent of Schools. Middletown. Conn, Nov. IT, 1913. Carrying Out the Plan. l The plan outlined in this letter is l being carried out. Tte rooms art heated and kept moderately warm, SC | that there is nothing extreme, onls
 it is determined not to have the ex- | cessive temperatures of over 70 degree: | which have been too common in tho
 past The temperature is taken ana | recorded every hour during the session by the teachers in the lower gradee
 and by the pupils in the upper grades No humidifying apparatus is used, bu | the outside air is depended upon u
 
 air inside It has not been necessar! l to purchase extra clothing for the chil dren as the temperatures are not reall.
 low. but quite normal and natural.
 The windows are only opened on on 1 side of the possible two or three sup piled with windows as not to hav
 a draft reach the children. The plal
 would have been more successful ha'
 the rooms been provided with win
 shields, as it was necessary to aban
 don the open windows on a few day
 since there was no provision agains
 drafts Next season it is expected |
 obtain better results with the aid O
 wind shields.
 | While no systematic record has bee ! kept. MT. Wheatiey feels that the pu
 pills have been better physically an
 more alert in their school work. N
 parent has sent in complaint becaus ! of colds said to have been contracte
 at school. On the other hand numer l ous parents have reported an improve physical condition of their children. | Nearly all the teachers have take ! kindly to the plan and have cooperate l in making the experiment a succes: 1 Several report that they are not S l exhausted at the close of school an
 same have actually taken on flesh dur ing the winter. Nothing radical O
 extreme is being tried, only what
 considered natural and sensible. Tn
 school room air is more wholesom and healthful than formerly, and bet ter results still are expected next sea son.