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Show Open Air Schools Grow in Favor. With the opening of the fall school term, over 200 open air schools and fresh air classes for tuberculosis, and anaemic children, and also for all children chil-dren in certain rooms and grades, will be in operation in various parts o fthe United States, according to the National Nation-al Association for thes-Study and Prevention Pre-vention of Tuberculosis. All of these schools have been established since C January, 1907, when the first institution institu-tion of this character was opened in Providence, R. I. On January 1st, 1910, there were only 13 open air schools in this country and a year lat-. lat-. , er the number had increased only to 29. Thus, the real growth in this movement has been within the last two years. Massachusetts now leads the states with 86 fresh air schools and classes for tuberculosis, anaemic and - other school children, Boston alone having over SO. New York comes next with 29, and Ohio is third with 21. Open air schools have now been established estab-lished in nearly 50. cities in 19 different differ-ent states. |