School Hygiene and Sanitation

In the afternoon Mr. H. 8. Redfern read a paper on "Uniform Examinations" and the Rey. Lowry Davis discussed "The School as an Evangelizing Agency," while Dr. W. W. Peter gave some practical views with regard to school hygiene and sanitation.

In the course of his address, Dr. Peter described sound physical basis as one of the greatest essen-of normal, moral and religious life and said that @ well-nourished and healthy body was the necessary preliminary to securing the best results from education. Without health, education was hardly possible. "No more head training should be given at the cost of the rear of the body. There ought to be, Dr. Peter continued, a marked difference between the health of the children attending the mission schools and those in other schools, A clean bill of health must carry great weight with regard to progress generally.

The speaker advocated more cooperation between teachers and physicians. Teachers might learn to detect the commoner ailments among their pupils, a work which would greatly simplify the work of the doctor, who would of course undertake diagnosis and treatment. If the "stupidity" of pupils were looked into, it would in many instances be found that they were suffering from the effect of bad hygienic and sanitary conditions, and that an improvement in the latter would lead to an improvement in the pupils, As far as possible medical inspection and supervision should be carried out in all mission schools, and particular care should be given to the smaller details of personal and general hygiene.

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