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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 316, 16 October 1875, Page 2

The following very sensible letter appeared in a recent Australian exchange, under the head of “ Filters for Schools A —“ However anxious the Coumyl Education are to provide moral for the young, they sadly neglect sanitary precaution of providing efielß school with a large filter or filters. And ■ now as the summer months are approaching, when children drink unsparingly, this cannot be urged too strongly upon those who are to blame, whether the Councilor the Government. —Yours, &c., A Lover of Pure Water.” The remarks made here will equally apply to the public schools of this province if not indeed of the colony. Wretchedly ventilated school-houses, and want of proper provision for the supply of pure water for the use of the scholars in the summer months, are means through which disease may he propagated, and the health of children, even of naturally strong constitutions, seriously affected. The want of proper ventilation in our public schools is a grave evil, and one seriously affecting the health of our children. Nor is a crowded school-roc m, steaming with the exhalations of a hundred or more children, conducive to the intellectual improvement of the “ victims.” If added to this, however, there is a want of pure water for drinking or as is the case in most schools, an absence of it altogether, the situation is Stillmore distressing and objectionable. With “ A Lover of Pure Water," we agree that every school should be provided with a large filter. Especially so should our city schools, for the water naturally obtainable is not only unfit to drink as drawn from the well or pun p’ but is actually poisonous. The Education Board sli uld give the suggestion some consider: tion immediately.—Auckland Star.