. The principles of hygiene; a practical manual for students, physicians, and health-officers . w Fig. 52.—Position assumed in writing with the desk too high. 28o SCHOOL HYGIENE. cient height to support properly the pupils back (). The writing desk should have an inclination ofabout 15 degrees. The desk should be fitted to the sizeof each pupil. The prevalence of lateral curvature ofthe spine in children is traceable to the use of desksthat are entirely too high or too low (Figs. 52 and 53).Defects in School-buildings.—During 1896-97 acommittee of the Womens Health Protective Association
. The principles of hygiene; a practical manual for students, physicians, and health-officers . w Fig. 52.—Position assumed in writing with the desk too high. 28o SCHOOL HYGIENE. cient height to support properly the pupils back (). The writing desk should have an inclination ofabout 15 degrees. The desk should be fitted to the sizeof each pupil. The prevalence of lateral curvature ofthe spine in children is traceable to the use of desksthat are entirely too high or too low (Figs. 52 and 53).Defects in School-buildings.—During 1896-97 acommittee of the Womens Health Protective Associationof Philadelphia, with the assistance of Professor Wood-bridge, of the Boston Institute of Technology, made a. Fig. 53.—Position assumed in writing with the desk too low. very thorough examination into the hygienic conditionof 160 public-school buildings of Philadelphia. In sum-ming up the result of their investigation they say that,next to uncleanliness, the greatest evil related to improperventilation; of small yards, due to the close proximityof buildings, some of them many stories in height; thepresence of coal gas; lack of sunshine; in the outsideair, close proximity of outhouses improperly constructedor carelessly cleaned and flushed; the keeping of wrapsin school-rooms or adjacent unventilated closets, andthe almost total absence of ventilation by transoms, MEDICAL INSPECTION OF SCHOOLS. 281 and in many instances the use of storm doors, renderingventilation impossible save at the expense of the chil-drens health. In one building, accommodating 200children, the sun never entered, save in one room at thenoon intermission. In some buildings there were as manyas nine rooms never cheered b
Size: 1617px × 1546px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, booksubjecthygiene, bookyear1901
