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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XL, Issue 13, 28 March 1908, Page 13

Dr. Radard, a Geneva dentist, claims that a complete narcosis ean be obtained if the rays of a blue electric light are brought to bear on the human eye while aft other rays of light are kept off it. Sir Victor Horsley, at a meeting of the British Medical Association, spoke in favour of making a system of periodic measurements part of the general scheme of medical inspection of school children. It was stated that at Marlborough school, where annual measurements have been recorded for twenty yeais, the average size and weight of the boys has been steadily increasing. From a comparison of these statistice it appears that in 1906 the boys 14 years old were almut five pounds heavier and nearly 1J inches taller than those of the samn age in 1880. The Tfi-year-old hoys of the present date keep up in proportion, b<ing threequarters of an ineh taller and 811 heavier. It would be interesting to learn something of the foods on which these youngsters were reared.