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ject does not receive official prominence in the curriculum. This
is already so full that instruction in personal and communal hygiene
is rather crowded out.
Under modern conditions of living in crowded towns, the
importance of inculcating a sense of personal and communal health
cannot be too strongly urged. The greater number of persons are
dependent for their livelihood upon their physical fitness, and any
adverse conditions of environment or of incorrect modes of living
react upon the individual, leading ultimately to a reduction or
total abolition of earning capacity. In times of particular industrial
stress and of keen commercial competition, that country leads whose
population is the fittest mentally and physically to bear the strain-
The chief objects aimed at in such specialised instruction should
be the following:—
(a) The inculcation of a high standard of domestic and civic
cleanliness.
(b) The counteraction of ignorance and carelessness in matters
of health, more especially regarding the spread of communicable
diseases.
(c) To give instruction in the broad principles of healthy living
and to instruct, in the cardinal signs of a departure from
that condition.
(d) To instruct in the chief social causes of illness and to
indicate the ways in which these causes may be counteracted.
(e) To extend the knowledge of the work of Public Health
departments so as to gain the co-operation to a greater
extent of the coming generation.
It is felt that if the older children are told about the social
services and their aims explained, a greater appreciation of them
will become manifest and a greater readiness to take a part in
voluntary activities whose concern is with the health of the populace.
nursery schools.
No nursery schools have been yet established in the borough.