vestibule provided with hooks for wraps. and the schoolroom is warmed by stoves. angle formed by the ceiling and side walls.

The vestibule is not warmed,
There are large cracks at the
There is no basement.

Primary Room.-This room is 27x30x14 feet, making 11,340 cubic feet; this is only room for 56 pupils. There are 40 desks; enrollment —; attendance 27. The room is lighted by three windows on the west side and one on the north side. They are so situated as to admit light from the right side of the children. Each pane of glass is 8x22 inches, making 58 square feet. The floor area is 810 feet, and there should be one-sixth of this area in glass-this would require 135 square feet. The room, therefore, has only about one-half as much light as sanitary conditions require. The floor is in good condition. The desks are almost new and of several different sizes.

High School Room.-This room is 16x25x14, making 6,720 cubic feet, furnishing space for 34 pupils. There are 25 seats. The enrollment is -: attendance 20. The room is lighted by three windows, two on the east and one on the north; each window has twelve panes of glass, 12x22 inches, making in all 58 square feet of glass surface. The floor area is 264 square feet, and one-sixth of this, or 44 square feet of glass, is required. The lighting is therefore sufficient. The light falls from the left shoulder of the pupils. The blackboards are slate.

Opinion and Recommendations.-I am decided of the opinion that the site of this school building is damp and low and difficult to drain and should be condemned. The school building has no basement beneath. is damp, hard to heat by stoves, has no ventilating ducts, the lighting of one room is insufficient, the vestibule is not heated and is an unfit place for wraps. I recommend that this building be condemned for school purposes.

After due consideration of the above survey, the following order of condemnation was unanimously adopted:

PROCLAMATION OF CONDEMNATION OF THE SCHOOLHOUSE AT ROCK CREEK CENTER, ROCK CREEK TOWNSHIP, HUNTINGTON COUNTY.

Whereas, It has been shown to the satisfaction of the Indiana State Board of Health that the schoolhouse at Rock Creek Center, Rock Creek Township, Huntington County, Indiana, is unsanitary and unfit for school purposes; therefore it is

Ordered, That said schoolhouse is condemned for school purposes and shall not be used for said purposes from and after this date, May 18, 1906. And in the event of the trustee or any school teacher or other person using the said schoolhouse for school purposes, then the Secretary of the Indiana State Board of Health shall duly inform the AttorneyGeneral. who will bring prosecution as in the statutes provided.

Passed by the Indiana State Board of Health in special session, May 18, 1906.

SANITARY SURVEY OF SCHOOLHOUSE AT KENNARD, GREENSBORO TOWNSHIP, HENRY COUNTY,

By Deputy E. H. Brubaker.

New Castle, Ind., May 4, 1906.

The building is a frame structure, which was originally one-story, consisting of three rooms and a hallway, with no basement. Then some years later the second story was added, making six rooms in all. The building is located on a lot of ample size and is reasonably well drained, with gravel walks leading up to the building from the street. The building is in a bad state of repair. On windy days the building can be felt to vibrate under the influence of the wind. On one extremely windy day the teacher felt alarmed, fearing that the building would collapse under the force of the wind. In one place the weather boarding is off, exposing the framework, which is decayed.

The blackboards are all slate and in good state of repair. The plastering is cracked and in some places is off. The rooms are all lighted by narrow windows and the north room on the ground floor is very dark, especially on cloudy days.

The rooms are all heated by stoves and on moderately cold days it is impossible to get any of the rooms warm enough, sometimes the temperature of the rooms is not above 60 degrees all day. This is especially true on windy days.

I was informed that there were many cases of colds and coughs, sore throats and pneumonia and allied ailments among the pupils and teachers, attributed to the cold and illy ventilated condition of the rooms. Many of the days the teachers and pupils wear their heavy wraps during school hours.

The stairs leading to the second floor are steep and dangerous, rising 14 feet in the same distance, and are protected by no railing. They are 9 feet wide. In all of the rooms the floors are in bad repair, with holes in same with boards and pieces of tin nailed over them.

In the lower rooms the wraps and the dinner pails or baskets are hung in the schoolrooms. Upstairs they are kept in the hall.

The desks and other fixtures are only in a fair state of repair.
The only means of ventilation is by windows.

The enrollment during the past winter was as follows: Primary room, 35; second room, grades two and three, 38; third room, grades three and four, 38; fourth room, 38; fifth room, 38; high school, 28; making a total of 215 pupils. The enrollment will show an increase for next winter. I was not able to learn the average attendance for last winter.

A large number of the patrons are complaining and are dissatisfied with the building.

The girls' outhouse is 112 feet north of the west wing of the building and the boys' outhouse the same distance north of the east wing of the school building. The two being about 100 feet apart.

The schoolhouse is in a very unsanitary and unsafe condition, the latter being enough to condemn it. I would recommend the condemuation of the schoolhouse for school purposes.

After due consideration of the above survey, the following proclamation of condemnation was unanimously adopted:

PROCLAMATION OF CONDEMNATION OF THE SCHOOLHOUSE AT KENNARD, GREENSBORO TOWNSHIP, HENRY COUNTY.

Whereas, It has been shown to the satisfaction of the Indiana State Board of Health that the schoolhouse at Kennard, Greensboro Township, Henry County, Indiana, is unsanitary and unfit for school purposes; therefore it is

Ordered, That said schoolhouse is condemned for school purposes and shall not be used for such purposes from and after this date, May 18, 1906, and in the event of the trustee or any school teacher or other person using said schoolhouse for school purposes, then the Secretary of the Indiana State Board of Health shall inform the Attorney-General, who will bring-prosecution as in the statutes provided.

Passed by the Indiana State Board of Health in special session, May 18, 1906.

REPORT OF SECOND SANITARY SURVEY OF SCHOOLHOUSE AT AVON, WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP, HENDRICKS COUNTY.

E. E. Blair, Trustee.

By J. N. Hurty.

In response to a petition from patrons, J. L. Anderson, Deputy State Health Officer, made a sanitary survey of the schoolhouse at Avon, February 1, 1906. Said survey was duly presented to the State Board of Health at a special meeting held March 7, 1906, and after due consideration of the evidence presented the schoolhouse was condemned.

Due notice of the complete proclamation of condemnation was duly posted on the schoolhouse and the trustee was formally notified by Dr. W. J. Hoadley, Health Officer of Hendricks County.

Now come Edward Mills, D. W. Carter, and C. D. Hollingsworth, composing the Advisory Board of Washington Township, Hendricks County, and present the following petition, which was received April 28, 1906:

"We, the undersigned citizens, taxpayers and patrons of School No. 6, in Washington Township, Hendricks County, State of Indiana, respectfully petition you to reconsider the action of your Honorable Board concerning the inspection of Schoolhouse No. 6, located at Avon, in said Washington Township, and for the purpose of reconsidering the matter we desire to call your attention to the following facts:

First. The building as it now stands was originally built as a twostory building and was not built as a one-story building and an additional story added thereto, as represented to you.

Second. The roof of said building is a good slate roof, and in good condition except in two places around flues.

Third. The floors of the various rooms are considerably worn, but these conditions could be remedied by reflooring.

Fourth. If the plan for heating the house is not sufficient we believe that it could be made sufficient without much expense.

Fifth. While the plastering is cracked in a few places, it is only where the leaks above referred to have damaged it, and it could be repaired with little expense.

Sixth. The outer walls of said building are apparently in as good condition as they were when first constructed. Upon careful examination we are unable to find any serious defects or cracks in the outside walls and only one small crack in the partition wall between the two lower rooms.

Seventh. There has been some drainage constructed for the schoolhouse lot, and if it is not sufficiently drained it will be a very easy matter to put in whatever amount of ditching is necessary to drain the same.

Eighth. The schoolhouse as it now stands is centrally located, and a good barn and sheds have been erected on the schoolhouse lot to accommodate the scholars and patrons of the school. Said buildings may not be entirely modern, but the same is well ventilated and lighted and if its sanitary conditions can be improved we will appreciate any suggestions you desire to make.

Ninth. As persons interested in having the right thing done we believe that this schoolhouse building is sufficient to accommodate the demands of the district in the township in which it is located, and that it can be put in the proper condition at very little expense. We also believe that it will be an unnecessary and useless burden to the taxpayers of the township to have the building torn down and a new one constructed.

We, therefore, ask you to consider the above facts and we ask you to make a careful investigation as to the true situation in regard to the sufficiency of the present building for school purposes."

D. W. CARTER,

EDWARD MILLS,

C. D. HOLLINGSWORTH,

Advisory Board.

SECOND SANITARY SURVEY OF SCHOOLHOUSE.

Upon Monday, April 30, 1906, State Health Officer made a second sanitary survey of the said schoolhouse as follows:

Site. The schoolyard is about two acres in extent. One-third is low wet ground. Trustee E. E. Blair, upon being questioned, said that in the winter of 1905 and 1906 fully one-third of the schoolyard was covered with water for a period of many days. At one time it was necessary to wade through water two inches deep, with mud beneath, to get coal from the coalhouse immediately in the rear of the schoolhouse yard.

Mr. J. Langston, Principal, upon being questioned, said that in rainy weather the schoolhouse was very damp; the walls at times being so moist that the blackboards could not be used. At these times the atmosphere in the room felt damp.

The trolley line runs within 42 feet of the front door and the noise of the passing cars is bound to be detrimental to the school, as attention to books and recitations will be disturbed and confusion caused.

The water supply is from a dug well which is 18 feet deep and which is immediately in the center of the trolley track. The top of the well has been covered over with brick and the water piped to a pump 12 feet away. This well may become polluted at any time through the dropping of excreta upon the track from passing trolley cars.

Conclusion.-The site is unsanitary and unfit in every particular for

a schoolhouse.

Building. The building is brick with a brick foundation. No basement, two stories high, four rooms, built in 1884. Cracks were discovered to exist on all sides of the building. The roof is slate and although not waterproof at the present time, could easily be made waterproof. The building is heated by two Peck-Williamson Ideal Heaters. These heaters are in the lower rooms and take up a great deal of space. According to the plan of these heaters they receive cold air from the outside and after warming introduce it into the lower and upper rooms.

There is also an appliance by which these heaters are designed to remove the foul air from near the floor of each room. According to the testimony received from the trustee, teachers and pupils these heaters are not adequate and do not maintain a uniform or proper temperature and do not properly pump the foul air away. At this point I will say that if the heaters were satisfactory they would be the first ones of the kind that I have ever known which were.

A winding stairway, 4 feet wide with 23 steps, leads to the upper story. The outer edge of the stairway is protected by a strong banister and the entrances to the two rooms in the upper story are through two small doors, one on each side of a narrow vestibule. This constitutes a firetrap, and if the house should catch on fire while school is in session many lives would doubtless be lost upon this steep, winding, narrow stairway. If the schoolhouse is remodeled the stairway must be so constructed as to lessen to the fullest degree possible the danger from accident by fire.

The total enrollment during the last term was 135, with a daily average attendance of 104. This makes an average absence of 31, or 22.9 per cent. Much of this absence was caused by sickness, for coughs, colds, catarrhs, headaches, and rheumatism prevailed among the children. The children are reported as continually complaining of cold feet in cold weather.

A marked unsanitary feature of the present building is the fact that the cold damp halls is the only place for keeping wraps.

Intermediate Room. On the first floor, 30x211⁄2x12 feet, making 7,740 cubic feet in all. The room contains 38 seats, with 40 pupils enrolled, average daily attendance 26. The cubic space is sufficient. The floor is badly worn. Light falls over the right shoulders of the pupils. Blackboards are painted, but not glossy. Ceiling cracked in several places. Seats vary in size to fit pupils of different ages.

Primary Room.-On first floor, on west side, 30x21x12, 7,740 cubic feet in all; 36 seats, 42 pupils enrolled, average daily attendance 32. There is an abundant cubic space for each pupil. Floor much worn. Blackboards painted, but not glossy. Ceiling much cracked. Seats vary

in size to fit pupils of different ages.