New-York tribune., 1921-12-19

veycd showed twenty-onc schools had
no outside play space and that
twenty~scver had indoor Fairgrounds,
usually dark. dreary. first floor bnse-
mcnts.' The report adds: I'm the re-
survey. practically no improvement is
noted"
Under the sub-hcad, "fire protcc-
ton" the report says:
I'm the original report on forty
school buildings eleven src described
as being "A definite menace in case of
fire and twelve as having only fair pro
lection, meaning either inadequate fire
escapes or too small and crsmped hall
! aud aisle spaces. Ten schools only of
the thirty-three actually reported on,
or less than one third, had adequate
fire projection.
"ln the revisits twenty Of the
twenty three buildings listed as bad
after the summer vacation, when i'm
provcments should have been made. In
two cases new buildings were soon to
be used, and in one additional fire es-
capcs had been added. Improvement
then is actually shown in only one in
stance
Tho failure of tho authorities to
remedy the poor ventilating and light
ing systems is shown by the report to
be almost equal to their neglect in
reducing the menace to tho public
school children by fire. Only four
schools included in the original survey
had been improved in this regard. On
this score tho report said:
In tho original report thirteen of
the thirty seven buildings reported on
as to this item were described as hay-
ing poor and inadequate lights and ven-
t,lation Fair conditions were reported
in nine buildings and satisfactory con-
ditions in fifteen buildings.
I'm the resurvey eighteen of the
buildings described az poor or fair in
lighting and ventilation were reported
as unchanged. In four buildings cleo
trio lights bad been or were being in
stalled and III two some improvement
had been made in the ventilation. One
or two cf the buildings reported orig
lpally 8 good hsd, nevertheless, made
improvements. Out of the total nun.
Der of twenty-five reported ss poor and
fair, meaning that some Of the rooms
are satisfactory and others not, i'm
provements had been made in only
four"
the report said that the resurvey indi-
Gated the repair policy of the city au-
thorities in the public schools seemed
to be TO let them go, as not worth re-
pair expense, pending the erection of
new buildings" Then observes the re-
port.
However, in many cases there is no
new building in prospect, and if
actually planned for two or three
years will elapse until it's compilation.
This means in the interim the develop
inert of intolerable and indecent con
Jitlons in the old buildings"
Summarizing its findings on the
poor physical condition OF the schools
embraced in the survey the report
says:
"ln the original report twenty-one
OF the thirty-six school buildings re-
ported on needed repairs badly, eight
were in fair state Of repair, seven
were reported as in satisfactory con-
dltlon. In the resulvey fifteen were
reported as having some repairs but
not enough: eight buildings were un-
changed, save in three cases where
leaking roofs had been taken care G.;
ten were reported as in satisfacto
condition as to repairs. Two schools
were not reported on, one of them
having been condemned and abandoned
This last is now the Bronx Continua-
ton School. OF the fifteen schools re-
porting some repairs in most cases
painting was referred to. but in every