THE OVERWORKING OF CHILDREN.
WHAT IT RESULTS IN
(Per Press Association.!
WELLINGTON, July 2. Captain Blunt, of H.M.S. Pioneer, drill ship for the Naval Reserve, told the local Navy League that, while the colonial physique was admirable, a large number of applicants i>a<l to be rejected on account of physical malformation. Out of 106 young men and lads of 18 or 19 years of age, 54 ivero rejected last year, 25 being for the reason mentioned. This year, out of 111, he had had to reject 61, of whom 26 were malformed. The percentage of rejections in England was only 42.
Captain Blunt had spoken to those in authority, and they gave him the idea that the cause was working children too young, and making them carry weights too heavy for them. Spinal curvature, ho found, was always on tho right side. Children should carry smaller loads, and, should carry them on both sides.
It was rather a serous matter, concluded the captain, and parents should take it into consideration. He spoke favuorablv of the men on the ship, and pleaded that work should bo found for them when they left.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12257, 3 July 1909, Page 7
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