SLIPPERS IN SCHOOL
TO COMBAT RHEUMATISM LONDON, Oct-. 15. Liverpool Education Committee are to ask the City Council to make a grant for the purchase of slippers and stockings for poor children who arrive in school with sodden boots. It was pointed out by Dr. Wafer Byrne, whose resolution was carried, that rheumatism was stated to cost the country £17,000,000 a year, and the foundation of ihe disease was probably laid in the schools through children having to remain in their wet clothes and sodden boots for manv hours.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16836, 27 December 1928, Page 4
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