CHILDREN IN BRITAIN
NOT ENOUGH SLEEP LONDON, May 27. Children, to-day are not getting enough sleep to enable them to make the best of their school life. . . - This has been stressed in recent reports by school doctors in all parts of the country. Dr. Blackham, medical officer of health for Loughborough, appeals to parents to send their children to bed earlier. Many children,.he points out, who have nothing organically wrong- with them are tired and listless in school through lack of sleep. Dr. William Beaumont, lion, medical director of the Institute of Ray Therapy (London), sai<l yesterday: “Homework is, I think, the bug-bear, and it- is seriously interfering with the health of many school-children.”
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18759, 16 July 1935, Page 11
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