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Law in the 

 State of 

 New York 

 Concerning 

 Construc- 

 tion of 

 School- 

 houses. 



CHAPTEB \\I 

 How CAN u SCHOOL Hv<, 1 1 i LI COB EN ran 



S i ION "i Ti m.i; ILOSIS? 



,ool board, or board of education as it is called in some 

 localities, in choosing a BJ a school should bear in mind 



that the most suitable Im-ality is a somewhat elevated n 



<*ete are wide and the surrounding houses not too 



and not too close to^ ud where the traffic is not too 



v. About the cnn>t ruction of a modern and model school- 

 much could be >aid. The essentials of sudi const ruc- 



.'.iv well known to all sanitarians and up-to-date an In 

 still in the ii 1 may !>e permitted to .piote 



I portion of a law which has recently been enacted in the 

 Legislate ' -w York in reference to sanitation of school- 



houses. "No schoolhouse shall hen-after le en < -t< <! in any city 

 of the third class or in any incorporate vi! diool <li 



of this State, and no addition to a school building in any HI< -h 

 place shall hereafter be erected, the cost of which shall exceed 

 five hundred dollars, until the plans and specifications for the 

 same shall have been submitted to the commissioner of edu- 

 cation and his approval endorsed thereon. Such plans and 



'.cations shall show in detail the ventilation, heating, and 

 lighting of such buildings. Such comnn of education 



shall not approve any plans for the ei e.-t ion of any school build- 

 ing or addition thereto unless the same shall provide at least 

 fifteen square feet of floor space and two hundred cubic feet 

 of air <-h pupil to be accommodated in each -tudy or 



'ion room therein, and no such plans shall be app: 

 by him unless provision i> made therein for assuring at 

 thirty cubic feet of pure air every minute jwr pupil, and the 

 facilii >n of the foul or vitiated air therein 



Oflithre and independent of atmo-pheric changes. . . 

 All -choolhouses for which plans and detailed statements 

 lx> filed and approved, as required by this act. shall ha 

 halk dor-. stairways, seats, passageways, and aisles, and all 

 lighting and heating appliances and apparatus arranged to 

 facilitate egress in case of fire or accident, and to afford the 

 requisite and proper accommodations for public protection in 

 such cases. All exit doors shall open outwardly and shall, if 

 double doors be used, be fastened with movable bolts ope; 



