Excerpt from Seventh Annual Report of the State Board of Health of the State of Maine: For the Year Ending December 31, 1891Each prospective citizen reared under the laws of our State is required to submit himself many hours, week after week, and year after year, to a regime of instruction, which, indispensable as it is, imposes conditions that are more or less artificial and irksome. Prolonged muscular restraint, faulty postures, poisoned school room air, intellectual over-pressure, - all are antagonistic to the up-building of a sound physical basis of usefulness. That the prevailing educational conditions and methods test severely the physical powers of pupils as the schools find them, is shown by the many children whose physical condition suffers injury during the school months - who, using the expressive term, become "fagged out." The hope that this Seventh Annual Report may aid in avoiding some of the dangers of education while the schools are conferring its benefits is thought to be a sufficient apology for devoting so large a part of it to school hygiene."Circular No.65, On Building School-Houses" gives concisely the more important rules that should guide in building school-houses that, while subserving the purpose for which they are built, will endanger the physical powers of the pupils as little as possible, but this very quality of terseness will prove unsatisfactory to some readers. The rules may be good, buts somewhat is wanted of the reasons for the rules and of practical ways of applying them. To supply this want, and especially to incite to thought and discussion in the field of school hygiene, broadly considered, is the purpose of the paper on "School Hygiene and School-Houses."In connection with the preparation of this paper the secretary was authorized by the Board to employ Prof. Woodbridge of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, to arrange the heating and ventilation for a number of the school-house plans that were to be included in the series to be presented.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.