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320 woman's work in sanitary reform.
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( Continued From Page 227. J Those Women...
schools may do very much to remedy these evils . A visitor fulfilslier task of inspection but very imperfectly if she confines her
attention to the mental and moral condition of the children : she should look upon the school not only as a nursery for minds and
harmonious souls , but also health for bodies development , and should of all see . that " Educate it is favorable ! educate to ! " the is
questionable the watchwor , boon d of y to the poor day ; girls but , when after it all undermine , education s the is a bodil very y
health upon which they will be dependent , for their bread . It is next to impossible to effect a sanitary reform in schools for
of the as they the poor need now while of generall the such governesses y a are reform . The and are first so to step i induce gnorant must them of be the to earnestl convince laws of health t them o coy
operate in effecting it . They , should be kindly encouraged to facility qualify should themselve be s afforded to teach them ph for ysiology the stud - and y of hyg those iene sciences , and every . In
many cases , some benevolent medical gentleman—the name of suoh is elements Legion— of will physiology be found and willing hygiene to give to a a class available course of of governesses lessons the in and the
pup knowled il teachers ge can . be Where well obtained such aid from is not books ; Lord , ' s " necessary Popular Physiology" and Miss C . E . _Beecher's " Letters to the People on
, Health In many and Happ schools iness a visitor , " are will among find those ventilation especiall much y suitable neglected . . **
the This cause primary is ; f not suffice the conditions it place to say to of , detail that health a all constant , and the where evils supp resulting it ly is of not pure fulfilled from air is this one in one the of
schools we provide for the children of the poor , we do them a grievous it is true wrong , put . ventilators A lady who in the visits walls an ill with -ventilated her own school hands cannot , but ,
she can lay the matter before the school managers , and in most cases will succeed in getting it attended to . The visitor should observe whether the children are comfortably hih
seated . It is common to find little children perched on a g form , with their feet hanging htl in mid air several inches from fashion the
in floor various ; others uncomfortable will be found postures tigy packed . These together and other , herring physical dis- , comforts are often the great cause of the children ' s irritability and
eo-called " naughtiness , " which are generally attributed to somenever thing make far different us adult . Of hilosop course hers , little at all p irritable hysical discomforts or unamiable never , but ,
p nimity poor little ; if , school therefore children , we wish have to make not attained them " good to our , " exalted we must equa first
-* The substance of most of the following remarks on day-schools is derived from Literarium a paper of on the 27 " Sanitary 1857 State of Schools , " by Dr . Roth , in the
" _f See Mr . Thomas " May Hopley , ' s " . Lecture on Respiration . " London : Churchill 1855
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320 Woman's Work In Sanitary Reform.
320 woman ' s work in sanitary reform .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1859, page 320, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071859/page/32/
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