SINGING AND CONSUMPTION.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 17 July 1901, Page 4

SINGING AND CONSUMPTION.

We are glad to find (remarks Health) that of late years a good deal more attention than formerly appears to bo paid to the question of the effect of vocal music as a preventive of phthisis. It may, we think, bo stated as fact that those nations which are devoted to the culture of vocal music are strong vigorous - cases with broad expansive chests. If an hour were daily given our public schools to the development of vocal music there would be less seen of drooping, withered hollow-chested and round shouldered children. At present, there appears too great a disposition to sacrifice physical health upon the altar of learing. Vocal music is a gymnastic exercise of the lungs by development of the lung tissue. Phthisis begins at the aspices of the lungs, because these parts are more inactive, and because the bronchial tubes are so arranged that they carry the inspired air with greater facility to the basis than to the aspices, During inactivity a person would ordinarily breathe about'4Bo cubic inches of air in a minute. If he walked at the rate of six miles an hour he would breathe 822 cubic inches, In singing this is increased mare than in walking, as to sing well requires all the capacity of the lungs.

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