Health Lessons for Beginners: A Physiology and Hygiene With Special Reference to the Effects of Alcoholic Drinks and Other Narcotics Upon the Human ... or Intermediate Grades, and Common Schools - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891. Excerpt: ... LESSON T. BUILDINGS.--LOCATION, CONSTRUCTION, LIGHT, ETC. (a) Where to build.--1. School-houses and our homes should be built on dry gro.und or on ground that is well drained. If the ground is such that a cellar would be damp, it is best to build on a foundation high enough above the level to permit air to move freely underneath. 2. The ground should be made to slope in all directions from the house, so that water may run off instead of soaking in near the foundation and causing dampness. 3. Buildings should not be closely surrounded by trees, or by other buildings, on the sides where there are windows. Houses covered by vines, whose windows are choked by shrubs, and whose roofs are overhung by branches of trees, will be damp. A free circulation of air should be allowed all about the house, and shade trees so placed as to leave openings for light and sun to enter. Too much sunlight may be prevented by blinds, outside or inside. The best light is usually obtained when the corners of the house point east, west, north, and south. Such facts should be kept in mind when you build houses, and when you plant trees and shrubs about them. Slops of no kind should be thrown near the building. (6) Something about how to build.--1. The material used in building school-houses should be as good as that used in the best dwellings, and the size of the rooms should be governed by the number of pupils that must occupy them. Air or breathingspace must be considered as of first importance. The best authorities say that a room 38 by 23 feet, with ceiling 12 feet high, is suited to about 40 pupils, but not more. If the space for each pupil is less than 300 cubic feet, the danger to health and life is great, unless there is good ventilation. 2. Windows should be placed 3i or 4 f...

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