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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18950, 23 February 1925, Page 7

BACKWARD CHILDREN. Before the recent committee of inquiry, a witness, speaking officially for the Department of Education, said that the presenco in the schools of so many subnormal children is a serious problem. The Director of Education referred to " the present alarming and rapid increase of subnormal children." A school medical officer stated of tho children in one school that of 35 family histories studied, seven showed alcoholism. Of a family of four, it was said when the police visited the home of thes» children at 2.30 p.m., both parents were in bed drunk and the four children were found in a back room in a filthy condition and all suffering from whooping? cough. All these children had been doped at night with whisky to keep them quiet. All are now under the care of the State, and tho cost of maintenance falls on the public. Alexander McNicholl, an eminent English psychologist, in an account of the researches among children in London and Birmingham, states that 40 per cent, of the children in tho special classes for backward children were found to have intemperate parents. Tho same investigator has stated that in another inquiry ho found that 85 per cent, of the pupils doing unsatisfactory work had in temperate parents and only 15 per cent "had abstemious parents. Tho Minister for Education's report far 1923 states that in New Zealand the number of backward children in the puplic schools, up to and including Standard 11., i;> 7228. Alcoholic habits are unfair to the children and injurious to the race.—Advt. DAILY USE. The daily use of WINDSOR lodized SALT is suggested as a preventive, not as a patent cure. Physicians and health authorities recommend it. It is not to bjj thought of as a medicine. Authorities suggest its use for the iodine in it, just as they suggest, eating spinach for the iron tliat is in it, or milk because of its protein content. Windsor lodized Table Salt, Is 6d per 21b. carton. All grocers.— Advt,