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South Acton Junior (Boys).
One child treated. Disease—Ringworm.
Southfield Road (Infants).
One child treated. Disease—Ringworm.
Turnham Green R.C.
Children treated 11
Diseases from which children were suffering
Blepharitis 5
Septic Sore 2
Eczema 1
Impetigo 1
Discharging Ears 1
Bruises and cut 1
Infant Care and Management.
It seems that teaching in the schools might, with advantage,
be made more practical in certain directions. Boys and girls in
large towns are hurried off to work at the earliest possible
moment and their energies engrossed in acquiring technical skill
and in earning wages.
Little or no interest is taken in domestic matters. The girls
know very little but what they have learned at school, hence
they are ignorant of how to make a comfortable home for their
husbands, or how to rear healthy children. If girls are to be
good mothers they must know how to take care of infants.
It would be a great advantage if more extended and systematic
courses could be arranged to include cooking, cleaning, washing,
sewing, mending and so on; that the elder girls should be able
to choose a house, know how to use it to the best advantage
and how also what goods to get, their prices and how to combine
them ; in fact, all the things which make the difference between
a well-kept and a badly-kept house.