Illustrated Flushing and vicinity : College Point, Broadway-Flushing, Malba-on-the-Sound, Whitestone, Bayside, Douglaston, Little Neck in the third wa . re under way for equallyfine school buildings in Bayside and College Point. All these are thor-oughly up-to-date as to sanitation, ventilation and heating. The curriculum of studies in all these schools is substantially thesame as the course of studv prescribed bv the Board of Educationfor New York City andby the University ofthe State of New Yorkfor the State graduates take theRegents Examinationswhich qualify them forentrance int
Illustrated Flushing and vicinity : College Point, Broadway-Flushing, Malba-on-the-Sound, Whitestone, Bayside, Douglaston, Little Neck in the third wa . re under way for equallyfine school buildings in Bayside and College Point. All these are thor-oughly up-to-date as to sanitation, ventilation and heating. The curriculum of studies in all these schools is substantially thesame as the course of studv prescribed bv the Board of Educationfor New York City andby the University ofthe State of New Yorkfor the State graduates take theRegents Examinationswhich qualify them forentrance into HighSchool. In CollegePoint the DominicanSisters also conduct aHigh School, , approved bythe Regents, and havehad marked success intheir work during thepast ten years. The attendance atthese parish schools haskept pace with the rapid growth of population in Queens Borough,and has necessitated the building of these new and larger school struc-tures. The attendance figures for the scholastic year 1915-1916 wereas follows: St. Michaels, Flushing 655; St. Fidelis, College Point, 560;St. Lukes, Whitestone, 190; St. Agnes, College Point, New Catholic School at Whitestone 23 FLUSHING FROM A SANITARYSTANDPOINT By JOHN H. BARRY, , Asst Sanitary Superintendent,Borough of Queens, New York C*Xp FLUSHING occupies from a public health and sanitary standpoint arather unique position. It is the centre of well-ordered homes andhigh-minded public-spirited citizens, living with keen regard fortheir own healthfulness and a conscientious care for their neighborscomfort and well-being. It has at the same time been tributary to some grave health perilsall of which, it is most comforting to report, are in the process of efface-ment or control. The Brooklyn Ash Removal Company have now been working eightyears on filling in the Corona and Flushing meadows, and four-fifths ofthe work can now be properly said to have been performed. Three hun-dred acres have been filled with a mean dep
Size: 1777px × 1406px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, bookidillustratedf, bookyear1917
