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Show practice is unclean and demoralizing in the extreme, and should be peremptorily forbidden. The lighting of scl~oolroouise, ven in co~~~parativneelwy buildings, is singularly defective. In many cases thereis an i~~snfficienocfy light, the light falli~ig into a deep room from two or at the most three win-dows in the narrower sides. In nlany eases the light fill16 upon the children's desks from opposite sides. In short, schoolroon~as re exceed-ingly rarein which proper care is taken of the pupil's eyesight, through proper care in lighting the rooms. This fact becomes doubly serious in schools where the children are afflicted with granular eyelids or other diseases of the eye. In the majority of ceses, too, the lightiug of the schoolrooms at night, during the so-called study hour, is singularly insufficient. A few keroser~e lamps, fed by some cheap oil and filling the room with unwholesome gases, seem to be all the Indian school can afford. There is but one of the larger schools, Carlisle., that is lighted by elec-tricity- and the expense of this was not borne by the Goverrrrrment-- yet it would involx-e a coruparatively slnall expenditure of mouey to light all the larger schools by electricity and to heat them by steam or water. This would not o111y remove the many evils of the insufficieut and poison breedir~gm ethod of lighting large irl~titutionbs y kerosene lamps and of beating the111 by meansof mlsafe aud unrauitary stoves, but wonld renlove tlle chief cause for exper~sive conflagrat.ions which, from time to time. consume manv times thr amom~t that would be needed ill rerrdering such loss& impossible. An expenditure of $100,000 wonld be more t l ~ a na mple to furnish twelve or more of the 1a1,ger school plants with the neeissary apparatus for steam heating and electric lighting, and -irould secure more tho11 compensating safety against destructive co~iflagrations. I t is to be si~~cerelhyo ped that Oougress at its next session will enable the 111diau Office tomakethese mnc11-needed irnprovemel~ts. The remarks made above with reference to the ~choolrooms a11d dormitories apply with equal force to t,he construction of the kitchen, the dinil~gro om, aud nthcr apartments so Far as lighting a r~dv entila-tiou are concerned. They apply mith still greater force to the bath-rooms, mash rooms, and to the play rooms or assembly rooms for the bovs and eirls. comi~-i csa re due toVdef<ctived raiuaee. insufficient nrovisiou for sew- age, or imperfect water supply. ~hek'seems to be little excuse, how-ever. for defective arrangements in the outhouses in localities where' there is every opportrn~iffo~r t.he construction of thoroughly comfort-able and inodorous dry-earth closets, which, for the sake of decency, as well as for veighty hygienic considerations, should, in all cases, be connected with the building-s bv covered walks. " I w1111llle arl~rstlyr r(:o~u~ne~alsdo., that i l l the co~~st r~rctoift ~neuw st:I~t,olp lautr. Illore particul;~rl)'1 111 1udi;rn resrrvnrio~~rsi,le eusrolu of errctinc. b ~ ~ i l r llui o~r~r t~ilas11 o ne storv in I~r icI~bet ai~i\ntlouetl. Aside from t i e fact t i a t buildings of 2 o; 3 storyes are inferior to 1-story houses from a sanitary point of view, they increase the danger to the inmates in case of fire. Besides, inquiries which I have made into this ~ubjeoht ave elicited the fact that two 1-story buildings will cost less than one %story building of the same capacity furnished with the neces-sary fire escapes. It is needless to add that the expense of additional |