Health in home and town (1922) (14591587718)

Identifier: healthinhometown00brow (find matches)
Title: Health in home and town
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Brown, Bertha Millard, b. 1870
Subjects: Sanitation, Household Public health
Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) D.C. Heath and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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A Playground in Chicago athletic fields. Although the backyards of tenementhouses are often small and untidy in appearance, theyserve many children as spaces for play. In some citiesthe backyards of several neighboring houses are madeinto a common playground for the children living inthose houses. Vacant lots are often used by the largerboys for base ball and foot ball, and so are hardly safeplaces for the little children. 154 HEALTH IN HOME AND TOWN School-yards, —- School-yards were formerly closed tochildren after school hours. In some cities the yardsare now fitted with swings, parallel bars, and otherapparatus. They are open after school, on Saturdays,holidays, and daily during the summer vacation. Phila-
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A Playground on the Roof delphia has fifty-six playgrounds in school-yards andBoston has fifty-four. Roofs of School Houses. — Where school houses haveno yards, the roofs may be fitted up for basket-ball orfor other recreation. In New York City, where land isvery valuable, the roofs of eleven public schools are usedas playgrounds. They are thrown open every evening,except Sunday, from 7.30 to 10 p.m. The boys haveactive games and gymnastics, and the girls dance to the THE PARKS AND PLAYGROUNDS 155 music of brass-bands. The average nightly attendanceat each of these roof playgrounds is about two thousand,including many adults. Playgrounds. — Well-equipped playgrounds have beenestablished in city parks and squares. In a thicklysettled district the entire park may be given up to aplayground as in the McKinley Park in Chicago. Moreoften the playground is an area set apart for the childrenin a large park, as the playgrounds in the De WittClinton and the Hamilton Fish Parks in New York,