Open Air Crusaders: A Report of the Elizabeth McCormick Open Air School, Together With a General Account of Open Air School Work in Chicago and a Chapter on School Ventilation (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Kingsley, Sherman C.

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ISBN 10: 1331246776 ISBN 13: 9781331246770

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from Open Air Crusaders: A Report of the Elizabeth McCormick Open Air School, Together With a General Account of Open Air School Work in Chicago and a Chapter on School Ventilation

Eskimo suits which were guaranteed to attract the attention and arouse the interest of the most indifferent reader. This definite demonstration of the remarkable effects which the fresh air treat ment brings about in sick children set people in general, fathers and mothers, as well as teachers and doctors, to wondering what would be the results of similar treatment upon well children. As a result of the general public interest, the Board of Education of the City of Chicago on December 29, 1909, voted to establish twenty open window rooms in the Graham school, where the experiment had been under way in two rooms since September. On September 10, 1910, orders came from the superintendent's office to open all the windows in all the public schools of the city at least three times a day. The twenty thousand windows were opened.

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This little book concerns itself with the physical needs of school children. It is a story of the results obtained by giving a group of physically deficient pupils, most of them predisposed to tuberculosis, a year in an open air school; of their gain in health and mentality; of the part these little fresh air crusaders have already had in opening twenty thousand schoolhouse windows. The school was conducted by the United Charities of Chicago and the expense of maintenance, attendants and equipment was met through a grant to the Society by the Trustees of the Elizabeth McCormick Memorial Fund, a foundation in honor of the child to whose memory this book is dedicated. The Board of Education lent its generous and hearty co-operation by furnishing the school equipment, teacher, the supervision and whole conduct of the educational side of the work. Inquiries about the school have come from many different states, as well as from abroad, and have been so numerous that this somewhat detailed report is circulated in the hope that it may be of service to other communities where health needs and health rights of the children should be recognized and met. Above all it is hoped that this book will help in the movement to win their fresh air rights for all children. To make the book of the broadest possible service, to answer questions already asked and to anticipate others, we have included a chart giving a statement of the open air school movement up to date; a chapter on the open window school in Chicago by the principal of the Graham school; a chapter on the open air summer schools, taken largely from the 1000 report on Chicago's First Open Air School, issued by the Chicago Tuberculosis Institute, the large general agency which stands pre-eminently for the tuberculosis cause in Chicago; also a chapter on school ventilation which Dr. Evans, Health Commissioner of the City of Chicago, and his associates on the Chicago Ventilation Commission have kindly contributed.

Ventilating systems which do not ventilate have been reverenced too long. It is a serious matter when a school into which a child is forced actually contributes to his physical decline. The dull and backward pupil who cannot get his lesson is often kept in at recess or after school. He has sat for hours at a rigid desk, in an unnatural posture, in an over-heated room, the over-dried thirsty air sapping his already wilted system, the windows of the school never opened because the janitor, the ventilating engineer, and perhaps the teacher, who likes to have the thermometer 75 or more, say no.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1331246776
• ISBN 13: 9781331246770
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 120