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Identifier: hygieneofschoolr02barr (find matches)
Title: The hygiene of the schoolroom
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Barry, William Francis, 1872-
Subjects: School hygiene
Publisher: New York, Boston (etc.) Silver, Burdett and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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t supportedand the legs grow weary. Sixth, insufficient support for the back, causing fatigueand improper attitudes and consequent tendency for thespine to yield and take a side curve. Seventh, seat not hollowed suitably, causing pain andrestlessness. Eighth, a well-proportioned desk and seat, but notadapted to size of the child using it. In a proper seat the child should be able to sit backfirmly and have both heel and sole touch the floor fairly,with the upper and lower leg forming a perfect rightangle. Foot-rests are particularly tiresome, as they limittoo narrowly the motion of the childs feet. The back-rest should follow in shape the normal curves of thespine and should not reach higher than the lower borderof the shoulder blades, for otherwise the free movementsof the arms and shoulders are interfered with. School furniture of the stationary kind requires the useof different sizes of seats and desks to fit the needs of thepupils; furniture, on the other hand, so devised that the
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Fig. 7. Illustrates a desk and chair too small for pupils size, causing crampingof the lower limbs. School Furniture. 45 seat and desk can be adjvisted to proper size by raisingand lowering, is now in very general use, and no otherkind considered. Physicians, ocuHsts, and educatorseverywhere are united in advocating the use ofadjustable school desks, and surely some importanceshould be attached to their advice, for their daily experi-ence brings additional proof of the serious damage re-sulting from fitting the child to the seat rather thanfitting the seat to the child. Dr. Charles L. Scudder, ofBoston, an earnest student of school furniture, has madeextensive examinations in the schoolroom, disclosing thefollowing facts: Examination made of thirty-seven schoolrooms inBoston showed that only one-third were provided witlitwo sizes of desks and seats. In every instance wherethese two sizes were found, there were only a few of thesecond size, and the difference in these from the otherswa

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