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This is something under I/- a head per annum,
and considering that each child now costs nearly
£3 a year for educational purposes alone, the
amount to be spent does not seem excessive having
regard to the advantages to be gained. Elementary
Education will then be placed upon a basis which
hitherto it has lacked, one in which the child is
looked upon as a growing organism, whose
physiological needs and physical culture are
elements of educational interest, not less important
because they are basal and subservient to the higher
culture, and not unworthy of the discriminating care
the)' will receive with the advent of the medical
adviser to the schools.
William Butler,
Medical Officer of Health.
January 10th, 1908.