Health in home and town . for the firsttime. In two hundred other cities there is a strongmovement for their establishment. Maintaining Playgrounds. — In large cities there aremany agencies maintaining playgrounds, including thepark department, the board of education, settlementhouses, and various associations. Playground Census Number of City Population Playgrounds New York 4,766,883 261 Chicago 2,185,283 29 Philadelphia 1,549,008 73 St. Louis 687,029 n Boston 670,585 77 Cleveland 560,663 15 Baltimore 558,485 5o Buffalo 423,715 8 Cincinnati 364,463 12 San Francisco 416,912 5 Pittsburgh 533,90
Health in home and town . for the firsttime. In two hundred other cities there is a strongmovement for their establishment. Maintaining Playgrounds. — In large cities there aremany agencies maintaining playgrounds, including thepark department, the board of education, settlementhouses, and various associations. Playground Census Number of City Population Playgrounds New York 4,766,883 261 Chicago 2,185,283 29 Philadelphia 1,549,008 73 St. Louis 687,029 n Boston 670,585 77 Cleveland 560,663 15 Baltimore 558,485 5o Buffalo 423,715 8 Cincinnati 364,463 12 San Francisco 416,912 5 Pittsburgh 533,905 28 Detroit 465,766 11 Washington, 331,069 32 Los Angeles 319,198 9 THE PARKS AND PLAYGROUNDS 153 Where City Children Play. —Besides the city streets,the city Squares or triangles offer a small area for jump-ing rope, playing marbles, and such games as requireonly a small amount of space. City parks may becomethe ideal places for children to play, when they arefitted up, like those in Chicago, as playgrounds and. A Playground in Chicago athletic fields. Although the backyards of tenementhouses are often small and untidy in appearance, theyserve many children as spaces for play. In some citiesthe backyards of several neighboring houses are madeinto a common playground for the children living inthose houses. Vacant lots are often used by the largerboys for base ball and foot ball, and so are hardly safeplaces for the little children. 154 HEALTH IN HOME AND TOWN School-yards, —- School-yards were formerly closed tochildren after school hours. In some cities the yardsare now fitted with swings, parallel bars, and otherapparatus. They are open after school, on Saturdays,holidays, and daily during the summer vacation. Phila-
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