Hints and suggestions on school architecture and hygiene : with plans and illustrations for the use of school trustees in Ontario / by J. George Hodgins.
- J. George Hodgins
- Date:
- 1886
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Hints and suggestions on school architecture and hygiene : with plans and illustrations for the use of school trustees in Ontario / by J. George Hodgins. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![4 Fig. 9.—Latrine for Girls. 46. The Wisconsin State Superintendent of Education accompanies this plan with the following remarks :— “ The foundation, of stone or brick [for the vault of the privy], should be laid [in cement]. The sides and bottom of the vault should be built of brick laid in com¬ mon cement, and the inside plastered with mortar composed of the same material. The ground back of the bricks should be compact and solid, so that the pressure in the vault will not displace any of them. The door attached to the vault in the rear of each house should be strongly made, and fastened down by a lock. From this vault a wooden flue, without any cracks, should extend above the roof of the house, for the purpose of ventila¬ tion. As will be seen, an opening, four inches in width, can be constructed in the ridge of the roof, ... to remove the foul air in the room beneath. [See Fig. 7, on page 28.] Over this opening a hood should be built, to prevent rain or snow from falling inside. As the wind passes under this hood, it will aid materially in withdrawing through this opening the impurities from the building. The sides of the room should be covered tightly with matched fencing, and then painted. . . . The partitions for each seat should be six feet in height ; and when small children attend the school, [some] of the seats should always be made so low that they can occupy it and have their feet resting at the same time on the floor. “ . . . A window for the admission of light* and, if possible, so situated that sunshine will enter the room some portion of each day, should be included. For the boys’ outhouse, urinals should be constructed in the room . . . [See Fig 10 on page 31]. In both outhouses, conveniences should be supplied [in the form shown in Fig. 9 above] for the isolation and comparative seclusion of the children, particularly the delicate and nervous ones. ” A small window (not provided for in the engraving, Fig. 9) should, how¬ ever, he inserted about four feet from the floor and opposite to the opening to each compartment.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30480449_0031.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
