HEALTH OF SCHOOL CHILDREN
AN UNFAVOURABLE REPORT
NAPIER, September 30. Dr Elizabeth Gunn, one of the medical inspectors of schools, recently visited the Napier Public Schools, and in reporting to the Hawke’s Bay Education Board on the Napier West School, stated she was rather surprised to find a high percentage of malnutrition amongst the children, which can only be accounted for by the fact that the school was composed of more or less undesirable children who come from other schools.
This raised a storm of protest, at a school committee meeting last evening, when a resolution was passed emphatically demanding the names of the children referred to, and a full explanation by Dr Gunn of the word “ undesirable,” and, failing a satisfactory explanation, the statement be unreservedly withdrawn and published throughout the dominion, her report having been already published, casting a slur on a populous and-healthy residential portion of Napier.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3212, 6 October 1915, Page 85
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