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schools, but at the best the instruction is only fragmentary
and theoretical. To obtain practical results
these subjects must be practically taught, otherwise,
like the parsing and the cube root, they will be forgotten
long before the time arrives for their proper application.
The new Education Act has given to the Public
Health Authority a greater opportunity for exercising
a high and powerful influence for good on the wellbeing
of the community. It is a new weapon in its
armament, which, if employed in a wise and skilful
way, should do more in the next 15 years to reduce
the evils I have indicated, and at the same time make
the lives of our working classes healthier and happier,
than almost any enactment that has been passed since
that authority came into existence.
ZYMOTIC DEATH RATE.