The Playground as a Factor in School Hygiene

Scarcely twelve months ago tlie whole country was shocked by a disaster to school children so horrible in its details that men in distant cities wept in street-cars as they read the account in the morning papers. Immediately, everywhere, school buildings were inspected and hundreds of thousands of dollars were expended in alterations and fire escapes. Since then, in the city of that sad disaster, and in every city of equal size, many times that number of children have perished and scarcely a comment lias been raised. It would take four disasters like that at Cleveland every school day in the year to keep pace with the march of death among the school children of our land.