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Show We find the following in a New York paper and quote it because it is singularly singu-larly applicable to Salt Lake City, as witness Superintendent Millspaugh's letter to the school board a few months ago: "It will greatly astonish thousands thous-ands of good people to learn that, in many of the public schools of this city the children are in gravest danger from the persistent violation of hygienic and sanitary laws by those who have the edifices ed-ifices in charge. Perhaps the danger is somewhat exaggerated. Hut, if we may judge from the reports made by specialists special-ists to the academy of medicine, the need of many changes, especially in certain districts, is most pressing. Think oi eleven hundred children crowded into small and stuffy rooms in a schoolhouse which has been mado over from an old tenement rookery rooms in which, so say the inspectors, the germs of typhoid and malarial fever abound: Something must be done at once toward sanitation of a large number num-ber of our schoolhouses. New York must not get a reputation for slaughtering slaughter-ing the innocents." |