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Identifier: welfareofschoolc00cate (find matches)
Title: The welfare of the school child
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Cates, Henry Joseph
Subjects: School hygiene Child care
Publisher: New York, Funk and Wagnalls Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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Each closet should be ventilated, lighted,and have a door 3 inches short at the bottom and6 inches short at the top. In each compartmentthere should be a single pedestal hand-flushedcloset basin, with a separate flushing cistern. It isunreasonable to expect children to use properly theclosets in their homes unless they are taught as aroutine to flush the closets at the school. Anyautomatic system of flushing should be rejected oneducational grounds. It is usual to recommend one closet for everyfifteen girls, and one for every twenty-five boys.In infant departments each seat must be of suitablesize and height for young children, but it is totallyerroneous to consider that children 4 or 5 yearsof age are not strong enough to pull the chain of aflushing apparatus. For the boys, urinals should be provided in theproportion of 10 feet of urinal to every hundredchildren, and it is necessary to arrange for an auto-matic flushing system. It is advisable to divide a urinal into stalls, but 113
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School Buildings in any case the urinal should be partitioned off fromthe closets. At the present time there are, even in urbandistricts, many schools where the children are com-pelled to use a pail closet or open pit. These dis-gusting contrivances should no longer be permittedto endanger the health of the scholars. In some country areas it may be impossible tosecure a water-carriage system, but inasmuch asdrains have to be provided for rain and slop water,the instances in which earth closets have to be fittedshould be extremely rare. Not only on grounds of health should every en-deavour be made to provide separate hand-flushedwater-closets. Any scheme of education which doesnot train a child in personal cleanliness and thesimple rules of a healthy life, or fails to hold forththe school as an ideal, is based on a wrong founda-tion. School buildings and equipment should besuch that it is the ambition of each child to own ahouse possessing the improvements of a modernschool. Every chil

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