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As in former years the subject matter has been arranged
as far as possible in tabular form. The tables at the end of the
Report are those issued by the Board of Education.
In last year's report the question of Health Education and
the teaching of Hygiene was introduced, and some misunderstanding
was created regarding the purport of our remarks. Our object
was to bring into prominence the necessity of teaching Hygiene so
that every boy and girl would take a pride in their physical fitness,
and that cleanliness, care of the teeth, &c., would be inculcated as
habits with them. We did not underestimate the difficulties, and
as a result of a conference with the head teachers, the Director of
Education and the Chairman of the Education Committee, when a
frank interchange of views took place, a syllabus was agreed upon
and a place given to the definite teaching of hygiene.