SCHOOL CHILDREN'S HEALTH

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 93, 14 January 1919, Page 6

SCHOOL CHILDREN'S HEALTH

,-. ......•...:.■••. ( - DAILY GARGLE PARADES. Several suggested innovations in school management were considered~-at a meeting of'the Auckland City Schools Committee last' week. The chairman (Mr. E.' Lilly) drew attention to a recommendation made to the Otago Education Board by, the local district health officer (Dr. Farris) that all school children should be given gargle drill twice daily, w.ith the object of preventing the spread of diphtheria and other diseases Mr. Lilly said that" he had obtained a. report on the nintter fivi Dr. Pabst, who recommended that the scheme be tried; the headmasters of the schools were also favourable. It would be necessary, he added,' to see that each child was provided with a HJiig, and to instal apparatus for r\vfrig a plentiful supply of hot water. Tlie cost of the gargle solution, however, would be very small. Some doubt was expressed by one of tlio members as to whether all. the children could Le taught to gargle, as experience showed that even adults in many cases, could not learn. The mugs would also have to be kept clean, and many would probably get broken or mislaid. - A subcommittee was set up to inquire further and report to the next meeting. '