About two-thirds of responding normal schools reported conditions injurious to student health, chiefly poor ventilation, lighting, boarding, and overpressure of work¶

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Currency · newest study 1909 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person · overdue for a recheck since 1914: baselines and conditions change

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Of 67 schools answering, 22 claimed no injurious conditions, while others reported poor ventilation, insufficient lighting, improper heating, overcrowding, and overpressure of work with too little outdoor exercise. → Arthur Heche 1909

Evidence¶

Arthur Heche 1909¶

Arthur Heche. (1909). A Report on the Teaching and Practice of Hygiene in the Public Normal Schools of the United States. The Journal of Educational Psychology. https://www.jstor.org/journal/jeducreducpsyc

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Questionnaire returns on school conditions from 67 schools; in the summary, nearly two-thirds of schools are aware of conditions that ought not exist. Twenty schools confess poor ventilation, six insufficient lighting, and twelve report "overpressure of work and too little outdoor exercise."

"Inadequate ventilation, improper lighting, poor board- ing and rooming places, and overpressure are the chief condi- tions of injury to health."

Discussion¶

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