CARE OF THE CHILD.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1704, 18 December 1919, Page 6

CARE OF THE CHILD.

BRITAIN'S BIG PROGRAMME- IP LONDON, Dec. 1. Tho annual report of the medical department of the Board of Education onipha,B ' sistM that tho scope of its duties and reel sponsibilitics become over increasingly min portent, and involve the physical nurture ls of childhood from two years 'to a doles-; 0 I ri|conco, A healthy race can only be built g up by means of a systematic and pro- w i- I gressivo policy, including improved nutn- 0 I ie 1 tion medical treatment, physical training, R id I teaching of hygiene, and more open-air j, st i life. ° , 11 ic 1 Tho report draws attention to tho nooes- j d I s ity of widely extending to all schools, cs- .[, to | oocially continuation schools, the teach- „ 1 i„g of mothercraft, which began last year j o- i„ S orao centres. It also urges, tho need j k- j for tho great extension of open-air schools, ) t ig j for backward and malnourished and de- , to i bilitatod ,children , ) 1 ?d | m) 10 report indicates the great woik ( <y which is being accomplished by the schools- ) ift " dental service. ; | ce , ' _ * ISO . I —————"