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Show SCHOOLS MUST BE IDE SANITARY Salt Lake, March 3. From a sanitary sani-tary standpoint, thero are public school buildings in Salt Lake City that are almost perfect and others which can only be described as "dirty," according to the report of the investigating committee of the Association of City Clubs, which reported re-ported yesterday. Twenty-two women, wom-en, members of the association, headed head-ed by Mrs. B. F. Frobes, have been investigating conditions in the school buildings for two months, and their report, which was adopted by tho association as-sociation at a meeting in the Commercial Commer-cial club yesterday afternoon, will be presented to the board of education educa-tion in the near future. It contains a number of recommendations of importance. im-portance. Among the recommendations which the report makes is that tho use of individual towels be adopted throughout through-out the entire public school system. The committee suggests that either paper towels be usod or that a linen towel be distributed to each child by the teacher on Monday morning and taken up Friday afternoon. Tho com-mittoe com-mittoe will also recommend to the board of -education that all sweeping be moist sweeping and all dusting be done with "dustless" cloths and not with feather dusters. A Insufficient light will bo the charge upon which the committee hopes to persuade the board to discontinue the use of somo of the basement schoolrooms. school-rooms. Out of twenty-seven buildings build-ings inspected seventeen were found to contain basement classrooms. In fourteen buildings the heat was found to enter some of the rooms above the head of tho pupils, a condition con-dition which sanitary experts seriously seri-ously object to. The board of education will be at once requested to order the Installation Installa-tion of a vacuum cleaner system In the new high school building. According Ac-cording to the report of the women investigators, such a system was originally orig-inally planned and later eliminated. In a new building of the extent of the high school the1 women believe that a vacuum cleaning system ought to be Included. That all janitors in the city schools be required to tako a summer course 'for janitors at the University of Utah Is another of the committee's recommendations. recom-mendations. The women say that the university would establish such a course in the summer school if there was a demand for it. The course would include lectures on sanitation, san-itation, hygiene, heating and ventilation ventila-tion and other' subjects which would assist the Janitors in the duties and be beneficial to the welfare of both teachers and pupils. More frequent, and adequate car service in the afternoons for the present pres-ent high school will be requested of the Utah Light & Railway company by the .committee. Investigations resulted re-sulted in a report that tho afternoon car service from the high school was inadequate, and in some instances It was reported as inadequate during the morning hours. |