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These children as a rule make excellent progress while
attending the special classes. Under the skilled supervision of
Miss Bains they lose much of their self-consciousness and regain
a great deal of self-control. The greatest difficulty is experienced
in getting them to practise in school and elsewhere what
they are taught in the special classes, and too many of the
parents take but little interest in the routine to be followed by
a child who is to rid himself of this distressing defect. Without
the co-operation of parents really satisfactory results cannot be
obtained.

TEACHING OF HYGIENE.
In his "Report on the Health of the School Child for the
year 1920" Sir George Newman devoted a considerable amount
of space to the subject of health teaching in schools, and made
a strong appeal to Local Education Authorities for the inclusion
of such teaching in the curriculum of all their schools. In
Hornsey the systematic teaching of hygiene has been practised
in the schools since 1904, when a syllabus of simple lessons on
personal hygiene was issued to all head teachers. This syllabus
has recently been re-issued after revision by representative
persons interested in the subject.
During the past few months some 1,200 copies of the
journal, "Better Health," have been distributed monthly among
the various schools, public and private, in Hornsey, and it is hoped
that the accurate information on health questions contained in
the journal will have a wide-spread influence for good in the
Borough.