HEALTH OF CHILDREN.
SIR TRUBY KING'S ADVICE. (BT (AUSTBAIJAK AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) MELBOURNE, October 7. Speaking at the annual Congress of the Health Association of Australia Sir Truby King said that the froquont taking of food and drink between meals, and the large quantities of cane sugar in sweets in every form wa3 to be deplored. The whole community suffered front the excessive temptation to eat sweets. The kinema was tho curso of* Saturday afternoons when children ought to bo out in the open playing games. Instead they came' from the pictures tired, and jaded, and stimulated in ways in which they should not be stimulated at all.
Touching upon the risks associated with motherhood, Sir Truby King said that if a woman only kept herself in a fit condition she would have all the natural advantages of a primitive woman.
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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18507, 8 October 1925, Page 9
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