CARE OF THE CHILD.
BRITAIN'S PROBLEM. LONDON, Decembor 1. The annual report of tho medical department of tho Board of Education emphasises that the scope of its duties and responsibilities becomes over increasingly important, and involves tho physical nurture of childhood'from two years to adolescence. A healthy race can only be built up by means of a system a lie and progressive policy, including improved nutrition, medical treatment, physical training, teaching of hygieno and more open-air life, Tho report driws attention to tho necessity of widely extending to all schools, especially continuation schools, tho teaching of inothercraft, which began last year in some centres. lb also urges the need for tho great extension of open-air schools, for backward ajid mal-nourishod and debilitated children. Tho roport indicates the great work which is being accomplished by tho schools' dental service.
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Press, Volume LV, Issue 16703, 11 December 1919, Page 9
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