THE HEALTH OF SCHOOL CHILDREN.
TO THE EDITOB. g IR Dr Marshall Macdonald deserves our thank's for calling attention to the inadequacy or air space in the school buildings, but X fear that no attention will be paid to what he has said. The people do not trouble about prevention so much as about cure, which is seldom if ever fully obtained. The school buildings are erected on wrong lines. They should be cf one storey only, with higher walls and cathedral roofs, but with no ceilings. This would give much more air space and ventilation would easily be provided in the roof and thus . the draghts of open windows on stormy days would be avoided. Of course the cost. of the buildings would be increased; but the gain in other directions would more than compensate for this. , ', . Mr Tyridall rightly calls attention to the lack di proper clothing for children. Doctors have frequently pointed this out, but fashion still rules. When I have spoken to mothers about it I have been told to mind my own .business.—-I am, etc., ' J. B. S. : C.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18861, 14 May 1923, Page 8
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