Chas A. Greathouse
Published: 2018-03-08
Total Pages: 44
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Excerpt from Manual of Instructions for School Authorities and School Physicians: Issued Jointly by the Indiana State Board of Education and the Indiana State Board of Health, as Provided in Section 5 of the Medical School Inspection Law, Approved March 6, 1911 School buildings, if of brick, shall have a stone foundation, or the foundation may be of brick, or concrete: Provided, A layer of slate, stone or other impervious material be interposed above the ground line, or the foundation may be of Vitrified brick and the layer of impervious material will not be required. Every two-story schoolhouse shall have a dry, well= lighted basement under the entire building, said basement to have a cement or concrete floor and ceiling to be not less than ten feet above the floor level. The ground floor of all schoolhouses shall be raised at least three feet above the ground level and have, when possible, dry, well lighted basement under the entire building, and shall have a solid foundation of brick, tile, stone or concrete, and the area between the ground and the floor shall be thoroughly ven tilated. Each pupil shalt be provided with not less than 225 cubic feet of space, and the interior walls and. Ceiling shall be either painted or tinted some neutral color, as gray, slate, buff or green. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.