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Title: The sanitary news : healthy homes and healthy living : a weekly journal of sanitary science
Year: 1886 (1880s)
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Subjects: Sanitation Sanitation
Publisher: Chicago : The Sanitary News
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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be maintained. 6. Either the desk or the seat, or some partthereof, must be movable at pleasure, so that,although the desk usually overhangs the seat,the scholar may be able at any time to stand up-right in his place. 7. The desks and seats must be of various clerk of his city or town, peddlers must obtainlicenses, and all packages must be labeledimitation butter,oleomargarine,or butterine on the top, side and bottom. For neglectof the last requirement the penalty is $100 to$200, and for failure to register $20. At the last meeting of the common council ofKansas City $2,000 of the sanitary contingentfund was appropriated for the purpose of flush-ing O K creek, a foul and sluggish stream, madeso by the sewage which pours into it fromvarious parts of the city. City Engineer Don-nelly has ordered two 50,000 gallon tanks andone 10,000 gallon tank, and by this means theywill be able to let 110,000 gallons of waterthrough the worst parts of the creek, and thusrid it of some of its foulness.
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A SCHOOL DESK FOR HEALTH. A desk designed by Dr. Priestley Smith withespecial reference to sanitary requirements isdescribed by him as follows: 1. The seat must be of such height as will al-low the scholars feet to rest flat upon the flooror footboard, and broad enough to support thegreater part of the thigh. 2. The seat must have a back placed at suchheight as to fit the hollow of the back below theshoulder-blades, and support the body in a ver-tical position. 3. The near edge of the desk must be just sohigh above the seat that when the scholar sitssquare and upright with elbows to the sides, thehand and forearm may rest upon the desk with-out pushing up the shoulder. sizes, in order that the foregoing conditions mayhold good for scholars of various ages. NOTES AND NEWS. During last week over twenty-five cases ofdiphtheria were reported at Melrose, Mass., andover eight proved fatal. The plans and specifications prepared by Mr.M. V. Smith, M. E., of Pittsburgh, have beenaccepted by th

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