The Hygienic Construction Of The Bridgeport High School

Author : Warren Richard Briggs
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ISBN 13 : 9781332142163
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (421 download)

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Download or read book The Hygienic Construction of the Bridgeport High School written by Warren Richard Briggs and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Hygienic Construction of the Bridgeport High School: A Paper; Prepared for the Third Annual Report of the Connecticut State Board of Health When this is done we may hope to see the erection of the miserable shams, that greedy speculators and unscrupulous landlords now burden us with, stopped. So long as they enjoy the license which the present laws allow them, we can hope for no improvement. The school-house, where the child spends from four to six hours each day, demands our direct attention. The majority of the pupils in our public schools come from the poorer classes, and are, as a rule, none too cleanly in their personal habits; coming from homes which have none of the luxuries and barely the necessities of life, they are in no condition to be subjected to either excessive heat or extreme cold. Foul air and poor ventilation they have in plenty at their homes, and we should endeavor in the school room to supply them with pure air, uniform temperature, plenty of sunlight, cheerfulness, refinement and comfort; our buildings should be so planned as to combine all of these requirements. Dr. Lincoln, in his admirable paper recently published in Buck's Hygiene, has plainly told us what a school building should be, and the writer has endeavored, as far as lay in his power, to produce a building that shall be a model of its kind. He has not only labored long and faithfully himself, but has consulted the leading experts of the country in regard to the heating, ventilation, and general sanitary arrangements of the building, and has always received from them their hearty approval, coupled with the remark: "We have frequently called the attention of the public, in our articles, to what a building should be, and we are glad to see at last a building planned in accordance with our views." In all the writer's efforts he has been most ably seconded by the Board of Education of this city, and more especially by the members of the Board who comprise the Building Committee. They are, to a man, whole-souled, enlightened, Christian gentlemen, who have the welfare of the public in view, and although, they have been severely criticised and wrongfully assailed, they have unflinchingly put their shoulders to the wheel, and worked with a zeal that cannot be too highly commended to secure for the city a building that can be pointed to with pride, when finished. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.