CARE OF YOUNG CHILDREN.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19786, 26 November 1929, Page 11

CARE OF YOUNG CHILDREN.

CONDITIONS IN ENGLAND. MEDICAL OFFICER'S REPORT. icsrrraa nu* •«•"• t»nr>» —*s t:.n.T».c Tf-« .Urn -'.);t»:',nT , - ~ ni , I.«»N I>< t\. .\, ~., ni i„ r _>| ~t'r.p. - [Tinv.n f.-r f-... Q urMre and - ducaUun of at least two million of England's three million children und.T "■■•■ age of five does not exist," declares ■-- George Newman, in the course of ■.* annual report on thr health of shoo! children. "The lack of suitab!arrangements for dealing with disease ■-■ tore the school years is responsible '■>r the great mass of preventable >!."*a»e. which contravenes education. mmratca the expenditure thereon, ami , '" T ' th<r eeede of incapacity in the adult t-jpnlatjon." he declared. "It is fa!- :*.-•»■;« *o suppose that to *teriii*e men- *■»' ,: " r IV <' , ""ul cut off the bu'k of mental deficiency, for th«; great majo. nry of mentally deficient children are ""' directly th-: offspring of mentnttv deficient parent). The ag-s he low- five years are the most »m.-.-pti!,!e for bodv and mind." _ Sir George N.-wmart d»'.-ribes the S. oat movement as the g-catest do. mon«tration of practical education the vtorld has ever seen. Sir Georg* N'.-wman is chief medical officer for the Ministry of Health and Board of Education, and has he'd a number of other important positions. He has also written a mm'!""- of Looks ua medical and scientific subjects.l