Sanitary Conditions for SchoolhousesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1891 - 123 pages |
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Adams square air supply apparatus arranged blackboard boiler bottom BOYS brick flue Bridgeport BRIDGEPORT HIGH SCHOOL carbonic acid ceiling CLASS CLOAK ROOM closets coils cold air connected construction corridors cubic feet damper desks doors draft ELEVATIONS & SECTIONS ESTIMATED COST EXHAUST AIR extending fire floor plan FOUL AIR fresh air front furnace GIRLS HALL heater heating and ventilating height hopper hot air inches inlets iron jacket janitor Lamartine street light myopia outbuildings outlet partitions PERSPECTIVE placed PLANS ELEVATIONS PLATE PLAY ROOM PORCH Portland cement pupils Quinsigamond radiating Rai Stewart RECITATION ROOM REGISTER school building schoolhouse seats second floor SECTIONS Fig side slate smoke flue SMOKE PIPE SPECIAL COMMENDATION steam stove superintendent supply surface teacher temperature trough urinals vault VENT VENT VENT ventilating flues ventilating shaft VENTILATION AND HEATING walls WARDROBE WARM AIR water-closets weather Worcester YARD Yonkers NY
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Page 118 - Any expense incurred by such trustee or trustees in carrying out the requirements of this act shall be a charge upon the district, when such expense shall have been approved by the school commissioner of the district within which the school district is located, and a tax may be levied therefor without a vote of the district.
Page 118 - The trustees in the several school districts shall provide suitable and convenient water-closets or privies for each of the schools under their charge, at least two in number, which shall be entirely separated each from the other, and having separate means of access, and the approaches thereto shall be separated by a substantial close fence not less than seven feet in height.
Page 118 - September, eighteen hundred and eightyseven, the board of education, or the trustee or trustees having supervision over any school district of this State, shall provide suitable and convenient water-closets or privies for each of the schools under their charge, at least two in number, which shall be entirely separated each from the other and have separate means of access, and the approaches thereto shall be separated by a substantial close fence not less than seven feet in height.
Page 37 - VI. The provisions for ventilation should be such as to provide for each person in a class-room not less than thirty cubic feet of fresh air per minute, which amount must be introduced and thoroughly distributed without creating unpleasant draughts, or causing any two parts of the room to differ in temperature more than 2° F., or the maximum temperature to exceed 70° F.
Page 47 - ... supplied with a valve by which it may be closed if necessary. The smoke flue of. the stove is shown in Fig. 2, and behind it is the flue for ventilating the vaults. But the warm air will not enter the room unless a corresponding volume of air is withdrawn at the same time ; and this exhaust should be from near the floor, and on the same side of the room on which the fresh air enters near the top of the room. For the purpose of exhausting the vitiated air of the schoolroom, the furnace flue is...
Page 68 - The illustrations which follow will make this description plain. All dimensions are given in the floor-plan and sections. The capacity of the lower room is 10,700 cubic feet, that of the upper 12,040 cubic feet, allowance being made for chimney, platforms, stoves and jackets, but none for furniture or persons. The air space per scholar, using the average attendance during the winter term of 1886 as the basis of calculation, is for the lower room 194 • cubic feet, for the upper room 240 cubic feet....
Page 68 - ... contents of the rooms were added to the outflow, and the average attendance of the pupils employed as a factor. It is probable that in mild weather these figures would be somewhat reduced. They might be considerably reduced, and still leave quite a liberal supply for pupils of the ages specified if the commonly received views as to the amount required are correct. It is intended that the fire shall be kept burning in the flue-heating stove at all times, except in warm weather. In this way the...
Page 87 - ... that it can be moved at any time it is necessary to clean under it. Its entire lower edge is kept about 4 inches from the floor to give a full circulation of air under it at all points. The action of the incoming air is rapidly upward and outward, stratifying as it goes...
Page 118 - ... removal from office, and for withholding from the district any share of the public moneys of the state.
Page 75 - In our school buildings, the hat and cloak rooms have been more or less objectionable, especially in wet weather. Children coming in with wet garments? hang them in narrow rooms, poorly heated and lighted, and usually unventilated, where they are allowed to steam in a close and unwholesome atmosphere during the session, and at its close are put on by the child in a worse condition than when taken off. An attempt has been made to remedy this evil in the construction of this building. In the main halls,...