. Public health and preventive medicine. e fresh airsupply must be ample, and de-livered at a suitable temperature,warm in winter, and cool insummer. We annex diagrams(Figs. 184, 185, and 186) show-ing an installation of the LeicesterPlenum system, fulfilling theserequirements and demonstratingthe means by which the tempera-ture of the air supply is heating is best conducted byhot-water pipes, and the temperature should be maintained at 60° to 65 .The ceiling should be whitewashed, the walls of a quiet colour, and soconstructed that they can be washed, and that they are free from


. Public health and preventive medicine. e fresh airsupply must be ample, and de-livered at a suitable temperature,warm in winter, and cool insummer. We annex diagrams(Figs. 184, 185, and 186) show-ing an installation of the LeicesterPlenum system, fulfilling theserequirements and demonstratingthe means by which the tempera-ture of the air supply is heating is best conducted byhot-water pipes, and the temperature should be maintained at 60° to 65 .The ceiling should be whitewashed, the walls of a quiet colour, and soconstructed that they can be washed, and that they are free from projec-tions and recesses. Floors should be of hard wood, and cleansed should run in parallel rows at right angles to the windows, hospital beds, should, where possible, occupy the space in a line with thewall between two adjacent windows. The height of the desk above theseat should permit a child, when sitting, to rest both forearms comfortablyupon it without hunching or drooping of the shoulders. The desk should. Ground \%\?) SCHOOLS 413 be sloped at an angle not exceeding 20°, the vertical distance between theupper and lower edges of the desk should be about 3 in. It is well if theangle of slope of the desk can he altered for writ Jul;- and for reading. The ENGINE ROOMSell for dfivmci fc


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