Hygienic and Sanitarian State of Schools in the Lublin region (1918-1939)

Abstract

Poland, just before regaining its independence, faced not only the need to integrate formally the country, but most of all it had to take care of the youngest and create for them the right living conditions, including the suitable conditions for education. A number of hygienists claimed that the reason for many illnesses was the lack of proper school buildings fulfilling basic sanitarian conditions, safety and the right hygiene of learning. So the introduction of compulsory education and reforms concerning programs and structure of school system did not allow to think that the problem of Polish education had been solved. The measure of its state and the condition for development was accommodation and school buildings. Unfortunately, the infrastructure was not properly developed and it was visible in the whole Poland. The analysis of sources and source literature allowed to depict in the article the situation of primary school in the Lublin region county in the first years of independence of Poland. The article describes the infrastructure of educational centers, especially their material situation which directly influenced the conditions in which the youth learned. Much attention was paid to the creation of the net of primary schools, especially the data conditioning the technical conditions and equipment which was necessary to provide the pupils with the right hygienic conditions at schools.

Keywords

• szkoła
• uczeń
• higiena
• lubelszczyzna
• ii rzeczypospolita