Hygiene for young people . manymore children in it than in a kitchen, and theybring in much more dust and dirt. 198 HYGIENE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. How often is a kitchen swept, dusted andwashed ? In many homes the sweeping anddusting are done once a day, and the washingonce, twice, or even three times a week. If thisis necessary in keeping a kitchen clean, surelyour schoolrooms should be swept and dustedonce a day, and washed three or four times aweek. Some of you may object that this is apretty high standard of cleanliness ; but surelyno standard can be too high, when we wish tocontrol the spread
Hygiene for young people . manymore children in it than in a kitchen, and theybring in much more dust and dirt. 198 HYGIENE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. How often is a kitchen swept, dusted andwashed ? In many homes the sweeping anddusting are done once a day, and the washingonce, twice, or even three times a week. If thisis necessary in keeping a kitchen clean, surelyour schoolrooms should be swept and dustedonce a day, and washed three or four times aweek. Some of you may object that this is apretty high standard of cleanliness ; but surelyno standard can be too high, when we wish tocontrol the spread of disease, and bring uphealthy children. But yon will tell me that some school-houses are much harder tokeep clean thanothers. That isquite true. Oldschool-houses inwhich the floors arefull of gaping cracksuneven, roughand generally madeof pine boards—it is almost impossible to keepsuch floors clean. The dust of many feet hasfilled the cracks full, and the broom in sweeping,raises this dust again and again into the Figi-re 62.—Floor full of cracks CLEANLINESS. 199 One step, therefore, towards getting cleanschools is to have good floors, walls and recommended in the school regulations, floorsshould be made of hardwood boards, so closelylaid together that, if possible, they will notharbour one particle of dust. Such floors areeasily kept clean with a1 »n ish-broom. Moreover,they are easily , in dirty old schools—some of them almost asdirty as ordinary stables—one consumptive childmay give the disease tohalf-a-dozen. The germs of consump-tion are sown oftener inchildhood than in middlelife. Children are moreliable to take infectious diseases than adultsare; and, as they cannot care for themselves,parents and trustees should see to it thatschool-houses are kept very much more cleanlythan they are at present.
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