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Identifier: schoolarchitectu00bruc (find matches)
Title: School architecture; a handy manual for the use of architects and school authorities
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Bruce, William George, 1856-1949 Bruce, William Conrad, 1882- Bruce, Frank Milton, 1885- (from old catalog)
Subjects: School buildings
Publisher: Milwaukee, Johnson service company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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eats,passageways, and aisles, all lighting and heatingappliances and apparatus arranged to facilitateegress in cases of fire or accident, and to affordthe requisite and proper accommodations forpublic protection in such cases. The commission herein provided shall servewithout compensation, but shall receive theiractual and necessary expenses incurred in theperformance of their official duties, except thearchitect, who shall receive as above providedand four dollars per day while attending meet-ings of the commission, the account for whichshall be verified on oath and be paid from theState School Fund.—(Law 1907, Sec. 1823,Amended 1909.) The South Dakota law In order that due care may be exercised inthe heating, lighting and ventilation of publicschool buildings hereafter erected, no school-house shall be erected by any board of educationor school district board in this state until theplans and specifications for the same showing indetail the proper heating, lighting and ventila- 205
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206 Schoolhousc Laws tion of such building shall have been approvedby the superintendent of public instruction. Schoolhouses shall have in each classroom atleast fifteen square feet of floor space, and notless than two hundred cubic feet of air space perpupil, and shall provide for an approved systemof heating and ventilation by means of whicheach classroom shall be supplied with fresh airat the rate of not less than thirty cubic feet perminute for each pupil, and have a system ofheating capable of maintaining an average tem-perature of seventy degrees Fahrenheit duringthe coldest weather.— (Laws 1907, Art. XV., Sec.237.) The Kansas Law-Sec. 1. That the doors of all public or pri-vate schoolhouses shall open outwards, and alldoors of schoolhouses shall remain unlockedwhile the school is in session. Sec. 2. That in every public or privateschoolhouse of two or more stories, every storyabove the first shall be provided with either twoor more exits from the upper floor separate anddisti

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