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be far better not to have these children in school at all,
and hence not run the constant risk of having them
brought into the presence of the infection in school.
Doubtless some enthusiastic educationalists may say that
non-attendance at school under five years of age would
affect the child's education, but I think that no child's
scholastic education should be allowed to commence at
an age less than five years, and, in my judgment, it seems
almost a crime to allow children at the advanced age
of three years to seriously attend school, when, in my
opinion, they most certainly should be under the mother's
immediate care and supervision. It may further be advanced
that many mothers would not devote much supervision
or care to their young children in this way, but I
would say more shame to the mothers for so neglecting
their young children, and that anything that could be
done to hinder such parental neglect, and on the other
hand foster a better mothering and homely care for these
young children should be attempted.