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SEX EDUCATION.
Question:—Should Senior Schools be taught the elementary facts of
sex life?
Answer:—Personally I would deprecate any special course or courses devoted
to the biology of sex. Any teaching about sex should be purely incidental. In
nature study classes it is possible to include teaching on sexual reproduction in plants
and some members of the animal kingdom.
With such basic training adolescents readily appreciate any further teaching
about the physiology of human reproduction—indeed this follows so naturally that
there will scarce be need for further training.
The art of teaching is a life-long study and while I feel it proper for me to
advise generally, final decisions as to how to draw up such a curriculum and how to
teach must be left entirely to those professional people who have made this their
special study.
RADIOGRAPHY.
Question:—Is it possible for all children to be X-rayed?
(The man who asked this question added " I think it is the finest thing out ").
Answer:—It is possible for all school children to be X-rayed, and it is intended
that this shall be done as opportunity permits. During the latter part of the year
the Mobile X-ray Unit attended at the Barking Hospital where 1,387 school
children were X-rayed. Because it was not possible to do all the children on this
occasion it was decided to concentrate on the older children who would be leaving
school at an early date.