NO. I AIR AND TUBERCULOSIS HINSDALE lOJ 



Other private schools are advertising open air classrooms, e. g., the 

 Horace Mann School, the Packer Institute of Brooklyn and the 

 Brooklyn High School. 



All measures to preserve the purity of air and its freedom from 

 dust should be rigidly enforced in schools. Bad ventilation is the rule 

 except in the most modern school buildings. After two hours the air 

 is depressing and carbonic acid is usually found in excess. The 

 problem of how to deal with dust is a difficult one in schools, owing 

 to the expense of really efficient methods. The floors should not 

 have open crevices and dry sweeping should not be allowed. Sweep- 

 ing with wet saw dust is probably the most effective, and at the 

 end of each term a thorough bacteriological dust disinfection should 

 be carried out by the Department of Health. Dr. J. H. Lowman, 

 of Cleveland, who has instituted great reforms in the hygiene of 

 the schools of that city, recommends not formaldehyde, but that the 

 walls should be cleaned or painted, the furniture washed and the 

 floors treated with dilute solutions of chloride of lime. 



We recognize tuberculosis to be one of the greatest dangers to 

 school children, for at the tenth year the Prussian statistics show 

 that out of lOO boys who die, 9.26 die of tuberculosis, and out of 

 100 girls, 12.02 die of tuberculosis ; hence the importance of all hygr- 

 enic safeguards against this malady. 



Tracheo-bronchial tuberculosis and tuberculosis of the lymphatic 

 system are the forms most commonly encountered and strict medical 

 inspection will reveal large numbers of children for whom fresh air 

 schools or sanatorium schools should be provided. In New York 

 City, out of about one hundred thousand children examined in 1905- 

 1906, over one thousand were found to have pulmonary disease, and 

 in almost every case it was the first intimation to the mother that her 

 child had pulmonary tuberculosis. 



Besides the Waldschule of Germany there are specially constructed 

 sanatorium schools in Milan, Italy, and vacation colonies have been 

 established near Geneva, the Swiss Government supplying the 

 teacher while philanthropy supports the schools. In Denmark, 

 where the outing vacations are so thoroughly systematized, the 

 teachers are supplied by the state. The United States show prom- 

 ise of carrying out this enlightened method of dealing with the 

 tuberculous problem. Outdoor schools are conducted successfully 

 in connection with private camps for boys and girls. Many of these 

 are in New Hampshire and Maine, in the vicinity of the Rangeley 

 Lakes, and in Oxford County. 



