The Morris County Chronicle

Our Public School.

We hear of several complaints regarding the sanitary condition, or rather the sanitary regulations, of the Public School building on Maple avenue. A number of the pupils of this school have recently been taken ill in consequence of bad management of the ventilation of the school rooms. It seems the teachers have been in the habit, more particularly of late, when the rooms became heated and the children perspiring as if in inmates of a sweatbox, to pull down and open all, or nearly all, the windows surrounding the room in order to cool off the poor innocent martyrs of the "heated period," thus opening the way for the rapid inroad of disease and death. One family we know of has had four children down sick, and under the care of Dr. Pierson, for the last week, but are now happily on the way of recovery. Could not some safer course be taken to ventilate the rooms of our schools without subjecting the inmates to their noxious gases and counter cool currents? We hope this matter may be remedied by those in power, and that we shall at once be able to see an improvement that will relieve parent, child and all concerned.