VENTILATION OF SCHOOLS.
NEED FOR IMPROVEMENT
" The New Zealand Government spends £50,000 a year for doctors' to examine our school children, and then sends the children back to the same old schools, as though to keep the doctors, in a job," said Mr Hardie in the course of a talk on " Ventilation" at Christchurch. Few of the schools were reasonably ventilated, the doors and windows being placed in position without due regard for the' maintenance of a supply of fresh air. He attacked the slow combustion coke stove, .placed, as it usually was, in the middle of the floor. It should either have an air duct from outside, or be placed close to an open window, so that the air would be kept changed. After all, it was not so much the total air space as the air changes that were necessary to health. He Hurged that greater care should be taken to provide the most healthful conditions where young people were conrerned, for they were less able than adults to combat the effects of insufficien ventilation.
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Waipa Post, Volume XXI, Issue 1282, 17 August 1922, Page 3
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