Annual Reports of the Officers of State of the State of Indiana

Orleans Schoolhouse-The following letter was read:

Dr. J. N. Hurty, Indianapolis, Ind.:

Orleans, Ind., June 7, 1907.

Dear Sir-At their meeting on June 6th, 1907, the Orleans School Board passed the following motion:

The Orleans School Board promises to provide blinds and baffle boards to all windows, and to build a sanitary school building by the beginning of the school year of 1908, if possible.

I will personally see that the blinds and baffle boards are put in according to your requirements, and that the teachers have proper instructions in regard to ventilation.

Trusting this will meet with your approval, I am,

After discussion and argument, Dr. McCoy moved a reconsideration of the proclamation of condemnation of the Orleans schoolhouse, adopted April 10th, 1907.

Carried.

Moved by Dr. McCoy that the following proclamation of amendment be adopted:

PROCLAMATION OF AMENDMENT TO PROCLAMATION OF CON· DEMNATION OF THE SCHOOLHOUSE AT ORLEANS, IND.,

ADOPTED APRIL 10, 1907.

The Indiana State Board of Health, in regular session July 12th, 1907, amends the proclamation of condemnation of the schoolhouse at Orleans, adopted April 10th, 1907, as follows, to wit:

The words "June 1st, 1907," are stricken out, and the words June 1st, 1908, adopted.

Unanimously adopted.

SANITARY SURVEYS OF CERTAIN SCHOOLHOUSES AND ACTION TAKEN

THEREON.

BOONE COUNTY, IND., MARION TOWNSHIP, DISTRICTS 11, 12, 13, F. M. JOHNS, TRUSTEE, SHERIDAN, R. R. No. 21.

EXPLANATION.

By G. R. Coffin.

June 13, 1907. Districts seven and

These are all one-room country school buildings. ten have been abandoned by the law, which requires a school with an average daily attendance of twelve or less to be abandoned. All of these schools are within one or two miles of Terhune, Ind. The trustee of the township, and a majority of the patrons of these schools desire to erect a

modern graded school building at Terhune. There is opposition to the procedure. The matter is in the courts, or was at the time of my visit. A majority of the patrons had voted to abandon these schools. The trustee had purchased ground upon which to erect a central building. He had issued bonds to cover the cost of the proposed building, and then an injunction suit had been filed against him and the advisory board. Their demurrer to the injunction proceeding was to be passed upon June 14th. The result is unknown to me.

DISTRICT ELEVEN.

Site. This school is located about one and one-half miles north and west of Terhune, Ind. The plat contains one or two acres. The yard is well sodded.

Building. The building is a one-room frame. It is 24 feet by 30 feet in area. It is lighted by six windows, each 3 feet by 7 feet. Three are in the north and three are in the south wall. It is heated by a large stove in the center of the room. There are no means of ventilation except by the windows and doors. The walls and ceilings are unclean. The floor is rough and dirty. There are thirty pupils, comprising all grades, in this building. The means of heating, lighting and ventilating make the building unfit for school purposes.

DISTRICT TWELVE.

Site. This school is located about one mile north and east of Terhune, Ind. The plat contains an acre of land. The grounds are well sodded. The water supply is from a driven well.

Building. The building is a one-room brick. It is 24 feet by 32 feet in area. The foundation is bad at the northwest corner. A number of bricks are gone, leaving the walls in a dangerous condition. The building is lighted by six windows, each 3 feet by 7 feet. Three are in the east and three are in the west wall. The floor is dirty and unsanitary. The walls and ceilings are in fair condition. The building is heated by a large stove in the center of the room. There are no means of ventilation except by the windows and doors. This building is dangerous and unfit for school purposes. Thirty pupils are enrolled.

DISTRICT THIRTEEN.

Site. The school is located about one-half mile south of Terhune, Ind. The plat contains an acre or two of ground. The yard is well sodded.

Building. The building is a one-room brick building. It is 24 feet by 32 feet in area. It is lighted by six windows, each 3 feet by 7 feet. Three windows are in the north wall and three are in the south wall. The plastering and paper is off the ceiling and walls in patches. The walls, ceiling and floor are absolutely filthy and unsanitary. Sixty pupils attend school in this filthy place. The room is heated by a stove in the center of the There are no means of ventilation, except by the doors and windows. Patrons say that the teacher has dismissed school during high winds on account of the swaying of the walls of the building. The building is unfit for school purposes.

room.

Remarks. Several citizens of these communities say that the opposi[8-17549]

tion to a modern building comes mostly from people in the other end of the township and men who still own farms in the community but have moved to Lebanon to give their children proper school facilities.

Recommendations. It is respectfully recommended that the above described buildings be condemned.

After full consideration of the survey, Dr. Davis moved the adoption of the following proclamations of condemnation of the schoolhouses of Districts Nos. 11, 12, 13, in Marion Township. Boone County, Ind.

PROCLAMATION OF CONDEMNATION.

Whereas, It has been shown to the satisfaction of the Indiana State Board of Health, in regular session July 12, 1907, that the schoolhouse known as District number eleven, in Marion Township, Boone County, Indiana, is old, dilapidated, badly ventilated, wrongly lighted, insufficiently and unevenly warmed and otherwise unsanitary, so as to threaten the health and lives of the pupils; therefore, it is

Ordered, That the said schoolhouse is formally condemned and shall not be used for school purposes after the date July 12, 1907. Any township trustee, any school teacher, or any person who may use said schoolhouse for school purposes after July 12, 1907, shall be promptly prosecuted as by the statutes provided.

Unanimously adopted.

PROCLAMATION OF CONDEMNATION.

Whereas, It has been shown to the satisfaction of the Indiana State Board of Health, in regular session July 12, 1907, that the schoolhouse known as District number twelve, in Marion Township, Boone County, Indiana, is old, dilapidated, badly ventilated, wrongly lighted, insufficiently and unevenly warmed and otherwise unsanitary, so as to threaten the health and lives of the pupils; therefore, it is

Unanimously adopted.

PROCLAMATION OF CONDEMNATION.

Whereas, It has been shown to the satisfaction of the Indiana State Board of Health, in regular session July 12, 1907, that the schoolhouse known as District number thirteen, in Marion Township, Boone County, Indiana, is old, dilapidated, badly ventilated, wrongly lighted, insufficiently and unevenly warmed and otherwise unsanitary, so as to threaten the health and lives of the pupils; therefore, it is

Ordered, That the said schoolhouse is formally condemned and shall

not be used for school purposes after the date July 12, 1907. Any township trustee, any school teacher, or any person who may use said schoolhouse for school purposes after July 12, 1907, shall be promptly prosecuted as by the statutes provided.

Unanimously adopted.

SANITARY SURVEY OF SCHOOLHOUSE AT NEBRASKA, DISTRIC" No. 2, CAMPBELL TOWNSHIP, JENNINGS COUNTY, IND.

By D. R. Saunders.

June 11, 1907.

The following is a report of examination of schoolhouse and site in Campbell Township, Jennings County, District No. 2, Nebraska.

Size of lot about 120x200 feet. Flat, no drainage. Water stands at corners of house and different places in lot after rains.

The building is old, dilapidated, frame, two rooms, one above the other, 25x31 feet; building faces south. Entrance door at southeast corner into vestibule six feet square, where stairway leads to upper room (door entering southwest corner), which is 25x25 feet. Has two windows on west and east side and north end. Teacher's desk at south end. Room contains twenty-three desks, large enough for two. Blackboard on south wall back of teacher's position. Lower room same size, windows the same as above. Contains twenty-three single seats, thirteen double seats. Each room has one castiron stove. Burns coal; stoves situated in center aisle about eight feet from north wall; use same flue. The stoves are not more than two feet from seats opposite, on center aisle.

The ceilings and walls of both rooms are broken, and the weatherboarding on lower story is broken off all around the house in places, and plastering off the inside. House has stone foundation, 18 inches up. Cloakroom on ground floor under stairway; entrance from schoolroom. Cloakroom for upper room, entrance from school room. These rooms are six feet wide, twenty-five long across end of building on upper story. The space is taken up by stairway on lower floor, so they use the space under stairway. The walls are broken so that you can see into cloakroom from outside. The windows all same size, twelve lights 10x16. Teacher's desk plain oak table, no seat but a soapbox.

Coal house, 10x20, in yard.

Closets, brick, one on each corner of lot back. No screens.

Approach to building not good. It has been graded some, but there are no sidewalks, street is not improved. Rains standing in gutter by side of street. Do not know of any sickness traceable to house. House is worn out and is certainly very unsanitary. Ventilation up through floor and side walls. Heating, the very poorest possible; water supply from well dug, 22 feet on lot, said to be good water.

The lot could be graded and be all right for school purposes; the building would have to be repaired to be fit for a stable.

After considering all the evidence, Dr. McCoy moved the adoption of the following proclamation :

PROCLAMATION OF CONDEMNATION.

Whereas, It has been shown to the satisfaction of the Indiana State Board of Health, in regular session July 12, 1907, that the schoolhouse at Nebraska, District No. 2, Campbell Township, Jennings County, Indiana, is old, dilapidated, badly ventilated, wrongly lighted, insufficiently and unevenly warmed and otherwise unsanitary, so as to threaten the health and lives of the pupils; therefore, it is

Unanimously adopted.

INSPECTION OF SCHOOLHOUSE AT AUGUSTA, PIKE COUNTY, IND. By J. L. Anderson.

July 9, 1907.

Site. One-fourth acre, high and dry, but not enough ground and unsuitable in surface condition.

Walks. No walks of any kind. No well.

Water Closets.-Two, unsanitary in every way and absolutely abominable. No screens to them.

House. Two-story frame, shingle roof, built about twenty-five years. On stone pillars with no underpinning, and has settled to west side, splitting roof at comb. Building faces south. Weatherboarding torn off badly around base, and split and warped all over house.

Hall.-6x22x10 feet, with a 3-foot box stairway in west end. Floor dirty, worn out and broken. Walls and ceiling wainscoted with tongued and grooved boards, and many of the boards loose and broken. Two windows, one on each side of entrance, light this hall. Used as a cloak and garbage room, from the looks and sinell.

Lower Room.-22x30x10 feet. Wainscoted with boards same as hall. Blackboards.—Simply painted with black paint on the boards. Light by six windows, 3x7 feet, two on each side and two in north end. Half the windows knocked out. Two wooden posts in center of room, supporting upper floor (which is sagging). Seats old and broken; floor worn, filthy, and apparently never been cleaned. Heated by "Cannon" stove; ventilation by windows and cracks in wainscoting. Enrollment, 55; average attendance, 45.

Stairway. Three feet; reverse platform, broken at landing and dan

gerous.

Hall Above.-Same as below, except that the wainscoting was only as high as lower part of windows, and walls were plastered, but most of the plastering had been broken and fallen off.

Upper Room.-Same as lower room in size, but only an 8-foot ceiling. Wainscoting on sides to lower part of windows, and over head, walls plastered. Heated by "Cannonball" stove. Lighted by six windows, same as

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