Show SANITARY Y WE have been requested by a professional fess ional teacher to suggest that the of schoolrooms be isku regularly duenden to in this territory it is carefully done in ma many parts of af the world especially in seasons when epidemic and diseases enies prevail the result has beim been that the spread af d maladies of that character has been abben checked ebeck ed and evea even the general health af 4 the PU pupils pili unproved by bytha jhb of the atmosphere of the 4 school abol room J during dining the last few months such subh diseases is as scarlet fever faver and doph diphtheria have been more or less im prevalent dinong among children in cohe one in tance there was as a chise case of the la der coan complaint in a house hoose only it ifer w i rods from one of the of this city these difese facts that the fumigation n precaution should be adopted 1 the experiment costs but littie and there is not much labor connected with it ii all the openings odthe of the bu 0 doors and windows should be tightly closed ancron an iron vessel containing ning a quint quantity ity of sulphur is placed near the centre oy of the room and a live coal dropped into the stuff person haji attending to the process then thela withdraws leaving leading thid e burn id until consumed the sulphuric acid gas gak or fumes of the ift sulphur fiur should be allowed d to re in the room 8 several ev e ral hours this method is adopted in england in all buildings in which a E caw case fo 14 contagious disease has developed the work being done by public officers under the direction of a board of health all articles of clothing that have been in contact with the patient are carried away and after being put through a special fumigation in a public place used fr for the purpose are returned to the owner we respectfully commend the subject of fumigating fumi gating school houses as a sanitary measure to the trustees of districts it is a matter that could be attended to once a week say on saturdays that being the vacation day of the week we believe it would be attended with good re suite |