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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Pivot of Civilization by Margaret Sanger: light is continually necessary,'' declares the report. ``The
ventilation is extremely poor. The fire hazard is naturally great.
There are no rest-rooms whatever for the teachers.'' Other schools in
the neighborhood reveal conditions even worse. In two of them, for
example; ``In accordance with the requirements of the syllabus in
hygiene in the schools, the vision of the children is regularly
tested. In a recent test of this character, it was found in Public
School 108, the rate of defective vision in the various grades ranged
from 50 to 64 per cent.! In Public School 106, the rate ranged from
43 to 94 per cent.!''
The conditions, we are assured, are no exceptions to the rule of
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