Evening journal., 1915-06-08

plumbing job indiscriminately to the
lowest bidder.
IL. Seventeen of the thirty schools,
or more than one half, have toilets
in the yard. The toilets in the other
thirteen schools are in the basement,
or on the separate floors, or both. of
the buildings. In some of the build
| ings the odor from the out-of-doC-
toilets was very strong. In one case
of the inside toilets, ten out of the
eighteen individual toilets were not
working.
III. In three cases there is no con-
nection with the sewer. and the con-
sequent conditions are unthinkable. In
one case an epidemic of sores last
| fall was the result of the swarms OF
flies brought by the unsanitary con-
ditiOns and the hot weather. Screens
for the school windows have now Deen
provided
IV. In three cases the floors OF the
toilet rooms are of plain boards: the
other floors are cement, or tile, and
! five are in very bad condition,
orumbling and filthy.
V. Several of the toilets we're re-
ported as never locked-and frequent
ly used by people coming in from the
street
vi. In only two cases out of the
thirty, do the actual number of seats
for boys and girls equal the standard
In twenty-eight gases they are below
the standard. from one to six seats.
VII. In only two of the seventeen
, cases of yard toilets, were the seats
partitioned Off.
VIII. In only ten of the seventeen
I cases of yard toilets was there a sep
= arate toilet for the teachers. eithe
: in the building, or partitioned off
, TX. In four of the thirteen cases o
? inside toilets. they had a pull flush
r The other nine had automatic
p flushes.
X. The care of the toilets by IN
. ianitors left much to be desil ed. Il
p the seventeen yard toilets the JAM
s tors we're responsible for flushing Il
r. one case the ianitor had been ther
r month and did not know how the
a were to be flushed. In another cas-
s the flushing apparatus had been broh
4 en- for two months. In another cas-
e the toilets could never be hushe
l. when the tide was high, because IN
n sewer pipe was so small" In NV
l. cases the ianitor quite frankly sal
IT he only flushed them when they go
to smelling" in hot weather or whe
" the principal made him. The remaiI
n der varied from saying they wei
of flushed twice a day, 10 once a mont
l. XI. In most cases the ventili
d tion of the toilets was obviously il
IN adequate
2, MI. In fourteen cases OF the thi
" ~, the general condition Of the toi
lr cts could only be described as "vilc
F. in eleven cases. as fair 10 bad" an
r in FIVE cases as good"
IT Janitors.
" In giving the following facts the
IS is no desire to do any injury to Il
s. elderly men among the ianitors WI
must earn their living in some way
IN and particularly not to those few
l. them who do the best they can
le spite of physical drawbacks Mo
parents will admit. however. that q
d health of the children is OF infinite
r greater importance than the p
e cuniary interest of any man. no ma
.e ter how acutely we may sympathi
n with him in his situation in life.
uhhtA tAoAunh lhdA III AtNdi u ~ JAN
IS tor service a few changes have bee
Is made since this study was inishe
is which will undoubtedly improve col
p ditiOns in the schools affected. II
n need OF further improvement will I
le granted, / think, upln considerable
,e of the following summing up of col
/ ditions as they existed this winter
lie The janitor service In the elemel
lg tary schools makes much OF the ba
al condition of the physical plant inevi
able. Upon the care of the building
N the health of the children and n
In teachers is largelv dependent. and
F. is not right that their health shoul
m be endangered. The situation regarC
he ing ianitors has suffered nearly as hs
lr a storm OF criticism as the sanits
ID ton, and been the center Of sever
l. editorials
a There are supposedly certain un