RURAL CHILDREN.
UNDERSIZED & UNDERFED. PINK CHEEKS LOST FROM BRITAIN. cauls—patsa associatios—cormoiT) (AUSTRALIAN - AXD X.2. CABLE AS JOCIATIOK.) LONDON, November 16. The Board of Education's report on the medical inspection of school children) emphasises the surprising fallingoff in the phytique of rural children. It says that country-bred children wero formerly far superior in health and physique to the town-bred but now, instead of chubby faces, pink cheeks, bright eyes, and sturdy figures, the country schools, apart from farmers' children, are full of pale-faced, unicmie. under-sized, under-fed children. The change is attributed to the migration of the most Jit to towus, and to bad housing, lack of sufficient suitable food, intermarriage among the unfits left behiud, and ovor-largc families. Tho report suggests that as the times arc not sufficiently advanced to apply eugenics to marriage, the only available relief would bo by tho infusion of new blood by the eneouragemont of tOAvn-dwellers to return to the country.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 18233, 18 November 1924, Page 9
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155RURAL CHILDREN. Press, Volume LX, Issue 18233, 18 November 1924, Page 9
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