SCHOOL POPULAR

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXX, Issue 275, 26 November 1935, Page 5

SCHOOL POPULAR

NO UNWILLING PUPILS NOW HEALTH OFFICER’S REVIEW LONDON. August L Schoolboys have ch angled since Shakespeare’s time and no longer crawl “like snail, uWwilling to scihiool I .’ ’ This comment is made by Sir Frederick Menzies, county medical officer of health and school medical officer, in his rejpiort on health in London schools for 1934. “The school children,” he states, many of whom were formerly unhappy, ill-nourished, defective, unclean and prematurely old, have been replaced by a generation which 'approaches more nearly to the ideal of a population healthy, 'wholesome and full of the joy of living.” Sir Frederick points out that the organisation and growth of care for the children’s health in the London schools are contemporaneous with the reign of King George, which has been distinguished from all those that! went before by consideration for the health of the children. It was not until the King had ascended the throne that' the first school treatment' centre in London was opened in Hampstead in 19,10. Th 1911 provision existed —excluding dental -treatment —for the treatment of 27,647 children. Tri 1934 there were 74 treatment centres, and provision was mode —again excepting dental treatment) —for 167,910 children.