A PARENT’S PROTEST.

Northern Advocate, 11 February 1935, Page 8

A PARENT’S PROTEST.

(To the Editor) Sir—lt is reported in your paper that at the proposed carnival at Central Park one of the attractions will be a lolly scramble for children. As a parent, I wish to make a protest. A lolly sdramble anywhere should be condemned in the interests of hygiene, but particularly so in Central Park, where, the ground is often polluted by wanton spitting and by the tramp of many feet, I hope a .more dignified arid Kyjgienic rnethod of giving sweets to the children will be arranged. Practically all child ailments arise from infections, and many leave impaired health for the remainder of life. Yet, „in. spite of widespread instruction on "this matter, it is pitiful to see how grossly indifferent the majority of people are to a matter of such vital importance. -How common it is to see hordes of flies crawling over unprotected fruit and sweets exposed for sale. I have seen plants taken from a tray of earth with bare hands and, without washing, the same hands have immediately after served unwrapped sweets to a child. Surely the health

and lives of our children are too precious to be thus ignored. I am, etc., J.M.C.