Rural school sanitation : including physical and mental status of school children in Porter County, Indiana / by Taliaferro Clark, Surgeon, United States Public Health Service, George L. Collins, Surgeon, United States Public Health Service, and W.L. Treadway, Assistant Surgeon, United States Public Health Service ; prepared by direction of the Surgeon General.

  • Clark, Taliaferro, 1867-1948
Date:
1916
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Credit: Rural school sanitation : including physical and mental status of school children in Porter County, Indiana / by Taliaferro Clark, Surgeon, United States Public Health Service, George L. Collins, Surgeon, United States Public Health Service, and W.L. Treadway, Assistant Surgeon, United States Public Health Service ; prepared by direction of the Surgeon General. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TEMPERATURE REGULATION IN CLASSROOMS. Objection has been made to the maintenance of a uniform class- room temperature because, by so doing, certain stimuli habitual to ordinary everyday environment are removed; as, for example, the effects of variations in heat and cold on the blood pressure. This stimulation is doubtless of considerable value in certain general dis- orders, where education assumes a position of secondary importance. In the case of healthy children, however, the maintenance of a desir- . able uniform temperature in a healthful environment is unobjection- able from the standpoint of health and is most conducive to mental application, by removing the physical stimulation in question. The temperature usually advocated for classrooms in this country varies from 68° to 70° F. This standard, however, may be modified by climatic conditions. For example, 60° to 65° F. is considered a desirable indoor temperature in England, where the climate is uni- form and the air is of high relative humidity. Similar conditions are found in localities in this country, in which places the main- tenance of classroom temperatures should be regulated accordingly. Variations in either direction from this standard cause physical dis- comfort incompatible with the best mental effort. The maintenance of classroom temperatures above 70° F. is an economic loss through increased coal consumption. In schools in which no provision is made for heat control an unnecessary amount of fuel is consumed and heat is wasted through doors and windows opened for cooling purposes. Temperature observations? in individual schools and classrooms © are recorded in the following table: TABLE I.—Atmospheric conditions in 72 classrooms in the rural schools of Porter County, Ind. -: tl on ni a Water ‘ empera-| dioxide elative umidi-| evapo- Township and school. ture. per | humidity.| fier. rated 10,000. daily. Boone: °F. Per cent. ons. AV tesw Ortinstcpr2ce = 502 les Sot c sa te oe See e ae se] cae teicned eae tomer eee Lee eee Ty ahteae acth 19d. Rosi ped: eet ae ae Bale TOAE ast ote » O44 1 5 CS. Soe ee ESV Oe ye ois he ern oe sd ees ee he ee 71 8 253 Soden setae eee FIGDOU: Wn chon ses temas eee oer a ee oeavare vf As a py. Cr ear eee mages Grad 68,1225 2th eae ue kee oe Al ae ae sees Pol pseteceee st PAE Hl Papmiaey a ag Nae Grades:d443i ta. fails Aaa cb owl bigs Mesh t t 2 ve 169(}. CaryuAT par ots, AIT ACLES 6,4 5 nw wile eqn vice ed eee tae He nate Sects Be Bee eee onthe ioc doe GTAdOS a8) Dies Wii Wes eel cs nc aeitate ass, wens Oe Tax bake tao Pre Ge) Se Ay eal ah 8 Tanmehit ine eS ors. Se te ed Ese Te eT Oe ae ars i ta see eRe |< re = Pl) Center: Cooks C 0rners ba nae es ne tots eran en 74] 2-6 SLs see eee. Sea TUG Ma O ree coc sete ese okie eee en ets rare 79 8575 aT ie prt Bo te Meonarg sissy le. 4. WE BOE Se Cl, [Sse eS eL eZ ys So acme ee eee 1A number of temperature observations made in this survey were discarded because, the weather being mild, they represented outside atmospheric conditions rather than methods of heat regulation. 2—6=less than 6 quarts per 10,000.
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