| Show schoolhouse sanitation forty states of the union have taken some legal action toward safeguarding the sanitation of public school buildings according accordine toa bulletin on schoolhouse sanitation uett issued issue dby by the bureau of education of the U S department of the interior bior probably nine tenths of the existing regulation of this sort has come within the past decade der clares the bulletin a experience bence of 47 others A law passed in one extreme of the country today is copied next month or next year by a state 2 2000 or miles distant thirty eight states have some legal provision regarding the school site according to the bulletin nearly all of these provisions are statewide state wide in their application and are mandatory in in character these provisions include the proximity of nuisances availability of the site and size of the site nineteen states have laws prohibiting the location of school buildings within a specified distance from places where liquor is sold from gambling houses houses of prostitution tit ution and noisy or smoky factories thirty of the states have sought to regulate the water supply of the public school the revolt against the common drink ing cup says the bulletin has come within the past five years kansas was the pioneer but other states followed rapidly so that now half of the entire number have either a law or a regulation regarding drinking at cups some form of protect protection on against fire and panic is found in 36 states blanket regulations or the power to make such regulations exist in 12 states Geri general jeral or con st ruction with a view to fire prevention vo bention litin i is s dealt with in 10 states thirteen of tha states haye have something to say aas is to and inner stairways I 1 2 24 have regulations as to exits and 25 as to exterior escapes 10 mention alarm and firefight fire fight ing apparatus and 11 stated provide by law or regulations for fire drills less than half the states according by law or regulations ions for fire drills less than half the states according to the bulletin have any legal word on on ventilation thirty cub cubic F feet of fresh air per pupil per minute is the conventional amount specified in the matter of cleaning and dis infecting slightly more than one fourth of the states have regulations which control conditions to any degree outside the districts themselves some of the laws and regulations are almost model others are wholly inadequate adequate A few state boards of health have done notable work in this particular special cleaning and dis infecting follow in ill seven states immediately upon discoverer disco verey in any school of any of a certain class of diseases three of the states have a special list of specific diseases that call at once for action this list includes scarlet fever smallpox and diphtheria dip theria in all three states in two and infantile paralysis egide epidemic MIC i spi nal meningitis and bubonic plague in one each |
