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woman's work in sanitary reform. 317
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( Continued From Page 227. J Those Women...
for title tions Education to in an physiology increased in Eng , and allowanc land making and e of the 1 a pay certificate Commissioner . " The of Committee ability s of Education to of teacli Council it in a
large Irelan of physiology d diagrams then co into -operated showing schools with the . , A the structure series Board of of of nine Trade the beautifull human in the introduction frame y executed have
been since published , for tlie use of schools by the Board of Trade , . advant It now rem of ains these only mean for teacliers s but and this the from friends some of causes education not to easil take y
explained age without questioning ; the wisdom , and knowledge of all concerne structure d and , few laws seem of willing the " fearfull to do . and Not wonderfull only is the m s ade tud ' y human of the y y
to frame elevate very and useful purif and y interesting the mind , , to but create it is also lofty eminentl conceptions y calculated of the lovepowerand wisdom of the Creator , and to fill the heart with _,
, , adoring A gratitude absurd to inion Him . is sometimes expressed that this study op
injures very the delicacy and purity of the mind . This idea is so utterly false and revoltingthat it would not be worthy of mention _liere _,
did it not unfortunatel , y exist in the minds of many conscientious educators , and prevent th . em from imparting knowledge of tlie highest
being importance divine , " laws is nothin . throug To g say less h tnat which than any , to we reproach can " live be , injured and the Great move by , Lawg stud resul and y iver ing have . those from For our
we must study them , or suffer the heavy penalties ting leads ignorance to bitter and consequent hysical suffering violation if of our them knowled . Here ge , were our ignorance to cause
and moral should injury have , we p good should reason indeed reproachfull be ; most y unfortunatel to ask , " Wh y y constituted hast Thou ,
made me thus ?" Women have it also in their power to put an end to tlie undue
exercise of the mental faculties , and the neglect of physical training which are so general in girls' schoolsand which so seriously
under-, mine the health of the pupils . * ' Probably , in most schools far more attention is now paid to the fulfilment of the conditions of physical
health than was usual ten ox fifteen years ago ; but a still greater reform is urgently needed . The latest writer on bodily exercise f
numerous " expresses inquiries his firm conviction into the — matter a conviction , and with arrived considerable at land affcer making
painslar present taking inaction to day reach , and thousands other the truth violations of schools —that of there for the g law irls exist s where of in health Eng ( throug ) at least h , muscu at one the - -
third of the pupils are more or less deformed ; and that tliere are a still greater number of schools where , among thirty or forty girls ,
* See " English Woman ' s Journal" for May , 1858 , article on "Physical Training . "
London t Mr . , Thomas 1858 . Hox > ley : see _" Lecture on Bodily Exercise , " Part 2 .
Woman's Work In Sanitary Reform. 317
woman ' s work in sanitary reform . 317
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1859, page 317, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071859/page/29/
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