SCHOOLS HYGIENE.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 105, 4 May 1923, Page 5

SCHOOLS HYGIENE.

NEED FOR IMPROVEMENT. SPECIAL ROOMS FOR T.B. CHILDREN. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) DUXEDIX, this toy In an address before the St. John Ambulance Society. Dr. Marshall Macdonald stated that there should he battalions of v.omen ready to go into every home and preach tiie gospel of health. Jt was significant that, though there were no intense industrial conditions here yet. New Zealand was not an Al nation, nor even 151. Ho thought I children did not live under proper 1 hygienic conditions during the live hour school day. Orly one school hi ! Dunedin had any properly ventilated J departments. That waa the Xorth-Kast I Valley School, whose happy position was due to a tiro that occurred four years ago. In one room 110 feet long by 22 feet wide by 12 feet he had seen 107 children. It should not have housed more than half that number, but he had been assured that there had been as many as 240 in it. Medical officers would not be successful until there was public opinion strong enough to push for proper hygiene lor tubercular children. He urged that, attached to every school there should be an airy spacious room where would be placed children with chronic coughs, tubercular tendencies, or tubercular parents. This room would be in charge of a teacher who had spent some time in the tuberculosis dispensary of the University, and all classes be ta«ght by her or him as in the case of a country school, thus avoiding undue expense. In England this system was in operation, and such children were collected in a motor and j driven to school.