UNDERSIZED AND EMACIATED"
YOUTH IN DEPRESSED AREAS SCHOOLMASTER'S BITTER COMPLAINT (Received December 19, 1.32 a.m.) LONDON, December 17. "We cannot produce Al soldiers in the schools on C 3 rations from these depressed areas," declared Mr Eddie Williams, headmaster of Blaina Boys' School, Monmouthshire, criticising the conditions under which children are educated in such areas. He added:—"lt is humbug for the Government to. expect teachers to co-operate in its physical fitness campaign when the Exchequer's contribution is 20 per cent, of the cost of clothes and boots for physical training. It is a mere dangling of carrots before the donkeys. How are we going to find the other 80 per cent?
"The children sit with almost empty stomachs in freezing schools. They have tuberculosis and rheumatism stalking their footsteps, Fifty per cent, of my boys are undersized and emaciated."
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21970, 19 December 1936, Page 15
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