Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1923-11-09
illness Among Pupils TracabIe
to Antiquated System For
Fresh Air in School.
HEALTH OFFICIALS IN ACCORD
System Installed Thirteen Years
Ago Does Not Work Properly.
HIGH SCHOOL VENTILATION
Paper Read Before the Shoshone Study
Club Asserts Serious Condition
Exists at the School House
and a Change is Needed.

Mrs. D. Sidney Smith ad the fol-
lowing paper before the last meeting
Of the Shoshone Study club and as
there has been so much discussion on
the subject since, the Journal prints
the paper as read before the club:
Fresh air makes us snappy,
Fresh air makes us fit,
Fresh air makes us well and strong
Get enough of it,
This is little verse that has been
sent into practically every home in
the land by the Health Crusade Move
ment in the public schools We are
all in hearty agreement with this idea
So much that it is not even necessary
for me to follow the subject given me
except in a negative sense. Without
an adequate supply of fresh air any
health program will fall far short.
1t is indeed the corner stone of all
healthy lives. My desire is to have
you consider the menace of foul air
in the school room. 1 do not wish to
exaggerate in what I am going to say,
merely to state the facts as they have
come to me. Since the school build
ing here on the south side has been
erected, year after year the teachers
have cried out against the foul air
in their rooms and that they have
not been allowed to open a window
for ventilation without seriously dis
rupting the whole plant. I think you
all know, in a general way, how this
ventilating apparatus is supposed to
work so that it is not necessary to
make any detailed explanation here.
When this system was installed
am sure the board had reason to
believe and were fully convinced that
it was a scientific and efficient ar
rangement but in the thirteen years
in which it has been in use it has
had more than ample time to prove
itself miserable failure and I am
told any number of public buildings
elsewhere have discarded it.
Dr. Philip Jacobs, publicity director
of the National tuberculosis associa-
ton, asserted in an address before
the Pocatello meeting last week that
the man who invented such an abb
noxious system should be dynamited.
DR.. Dill feels very strongly on the
matter and is frank to say that he
never was in sympathy with the
method. That it is absolutely a
menace to the health of teachers and
children alike and that he repeatedly
has cases of respiratory infection di-
rectly tracable to this cause. Some Of
our serious epidemics of colds, sore
throats tonsilitis and influenza which
have travelled through the school could
have been avoided had the supply Of
fresh air been more favorable and
hat he believes a change of some
sort is Of vital Importance.
In a letter from Dr. Kidner he said
hese systems Of mechanical yentila-
ion are vicious beyond doubt and
hat direct ventilation Is the only
afe one 70 be relied upon. DR.. Kidner
s a man OF international reputation.
gho has specialized on this thing.
he International Congress al Londoa
allied him as institutional advisor and
g was loaned by Canada 10 the
'nited States lederal board for the
ocational edue-tion ~ soldiers stan
ardization o. sanitoria Is an expert
ties, ventilation, efo Dr. I<idnsr Is
so institutional secretary 10 the na-
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