SCHOOL CHILDREN'S HEALTH.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 118, 21 May 1910, Page 7

SCHOOL CHILDREN'S HEALTH.

c DISREGARD OF HYGIENIC LAWS. [BY TELECRJIPH — SPECIAL TO THE POST.J PALMERSTON N., This Day. The Chief Inspector of Schools in the Wanganui district (Mr. G. Brail?), in his repoit to the board, takes occasion to oomment on tho disregard of the ordinal*)' laws of health shown in e-ome schools. lie- refers particularly to the neglect of ventilation and us«"of dirty to-yyals and lavatories, and remarks that it is needless for him to point out that the condition of the school in rc=pect of sanitation has much to do with the attendaaice of the .pupils. Given a neat, cleun attractive school, and a bright, pleasant tone, good attendance, will, as a rule, follow as a natural consequence. Speaking of the proposed medical inspection of child Ten, Mr. Braik £ays : — "It is to be hoped that before the effects of bodily disoider are treated the causes, so far as they are attributaiWo to school conditions, will be grappled with. So long as there are schools — and these are not a ferw — with insufficient 'breathing space, with lights wrongly placed, seats wrongly constructed, playgrounds wet and sloppy, and with inadequate drainage, co long will the schools produce the disorders whirh it is proposed by medical aid and advice to remove."