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Title: Keeping the children well: medical inspection;
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Minneapolis Public Schools. Board of Education Keene, Charles Herbert, 1875- (from old catalog)
Subjects: School hygiene
Publisher: Minneapolis
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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e shouldbe located, according to the state regulations, one fountain foreach eighty pupils on a floor. Eleven schools, 16 per cent of thepermanent grade buildings, fail to reach this standard.1 In selecting a type of bubbling fountain for use, one mustbe sure that the fountain is what it professes to be, a sanitarymechanism. Water contaminated by any previous user must bereturned to the waste pipe instead of being held in a saucer-likearrangement, as happens with so many bubblers. As a matter of maintenance, watch must be kept constantlyto see that enough water is flowing continuously so that no childneeds to touch his lips to the bubbler itself in drinking. Thismeans, of course, a large water waste, with a big water bill.Without this last provision, however, previous expenditures inpurchase and installation of fountains are largely waste. Minneapolis city water is filtered and treated chemically sothat it is perfectly safe to drink. !See monograph, A Million a Year, page 71. —19—
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o - IV TOILETS AND FLOORS Toilets have presented another serious situation. The grad-ual bringing of most of them up to a proper standard has beena great drain upon the funds of the Board of Education. Until a few years ago it had apparently been the custom tomake additions to buildings without adding to the toilets. Theresult in many cases was a sixteen or twenty-room building, withtoilet capacity for eight or ten rooms. Of course, this condi-tion resulted in great confusion in toilet rooms, with crowdedconditions, which certainly broke down the barriers of modesty,if not of morality. It probably also resulted in numerous ill-nesses coming about from children not using the toilets whenthey should. The present regulations call for a urinal stall forevery fifteen boys, and a toilet stall for every twenty-five boysand one for every fifteen girls.1 The toilets have been largely remodeled, equipped with mod-ern, sanitary plumbing, painted in light colors, and provided withadditional venti

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