Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1909 — OPEN AIR SCHOOLS FAVORED [ARTICLE]

OPEN AIR SCHOOLS FAVORED

Social Workers Want Institutions for Tenement House Children. New York, Dec. 10.—Open-air schools for children In the tenement districts are recommended tn the annual report of the New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, which is making a determined crusade for the prevention of tuberculosis. One Of the association’s experts urging the open-air school idea declares that 23 per cent of the tenement children examined by the association last rammer showed traces of tuberculosis