Newark's Last Fifteen Years, 1904-1919. The Story in Outline - Newark Public Library

Girls' Vocational School: Recommended 1912. Opened Sept., 1914, in former Normal School building, Washington and Linden Sts.

Gymnasium, Public School: First gymnasium installed in new addition to Hamburg Place School during school year 1906-7. Barringer High School gymnasium annex opened 1909.

Health: See [Birth Rate]; [Child Hygiene Division—Board of Health]; [Death Rate]; [Food and Drug Division—Board of Health]; [Infantile Paralysis]; [Influenza]; [Little Mother's League]; [Medical History, Museum of]; [Mental Hygiene, Bureau of—Board of Health]; [Milk Supply]; [Tuberculosis, Campaign Against]; [Venereal Diseases, Bureau of—Board of Health]; [Whooping Cough].

High Schools: Barringer, formerly Newark High School, was the only high school in the city, 1838-1904. In 1907 the name was changed to Barringer High School, in memory of Dr. William N. Barringer, city superintendent of schools for about 20 years.

East Side, opened March 1, 1911.
Central, opened Feb. 1, 1912.
South Side, opened Sept. 8, 1913.
See also [Junior High Schools].

Housing: U. S. Homes Registration and Rent Profiteering Committee created July, 1918, with office in City Hall, branch of national organization for equitable protection of home rent payers and owners of dwellings. Undertook compilation of list of homes where war workers could obtain rooms. Conducted "Rent-a-Room" campaign as war expedient. Originally planned to aid war workers, service has broadened so that office has become a general housing bureau.

Basing its figures on local buildings reports Jan. 1, 1915-June 30, 1919, Sunday Call has estimated that Newark has shortage of 3,000 homes.