RULES OF HEALTH.
FOUR MOST IMPORTANT. LONDON SURGEON'S ADVICE. LONDON. Jan. 11. Sir Harry Edwin Bruce-Porter, a prominent London surgeon and vice-presi-dent "of the Shaftesbury Society and Ragged School Union, told the conference of. the Headmasters' Association to-day that most of the ills responsible for a C 3 nation were traceable to neglect of one or more of the four primary rules o£ health: Fresh air, fresh water, fresh food and good drainage. It was essential, he said, that boys should pl-y games in order to develop character, everi ii their hearts were ..defective. Many children were treated as invalids bcausc. oi murmurs in the heart, but some sounds,Vero without significance, .being due to narrow chests. Every boy should have a hobby to ensure an interest in middle life.
Smoking was not wicked and harmful, but merely silly. When it was commenced at an early age it made the heart irritable. The (surest way of preventing a boy from smoking prematurely was to giv,e him access; to a cigar-box.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19230, 20 January 1926, Page 10
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