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SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON SCHOOL
HYGIENE.
This Congress was held in London during the summer of
1907, at which the Hackney Borough Council were represented
by Councillor J. Barley and the Medical Officer of Health.
The following are the Resolutions passed at the Sections and
confirmed at the General Meeting:—
Section I.
The following resolution was passed in the Section by 50 votes
to 1, but by an oversight was not reported at the General Meeting
of the Congress:-
"Objective instruction being far less fatiguing to the
memory, and much better fitted to invigorate the intellectual
powers than instruction which makes use of words only, it is
desirable that systematic arrangements should be made for
enabling both teachers and pupils to have constant access to
sources of natural knowledge, including museums."
Section II.
Resolution I. of American School Hygiene Association, after
Dr. Darlington's Paper:—
Whereas the maintenance and development of the health
and vigour of school children is a matter of paramount
importance, and whereas experience in all large cities has
shown the importance of health inspection, be it resolved that
in every city and town adequate provision should be made both
for sanitary inspection of schools and for medical inspection of
school children, the latter to include not only inspection for
contagious diseases, but also of eyes, ears, teeth, throat and
nose, and of general physical condition.
Section IV.
Whereas the improvement in the health of and the
hygienic conditions surrounding school children depends
largely upon the intelligent operation, the competency, the
interest, and the faithfulness of teachers aud principals in