NOT MUCH RELATED.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 August 1924, Page 4

NOT MUCH RELATED.

[ HKAJ.TII AN!) "PJ-iP." LONDON. -May 1.1. Health is mil necessary tor c;uod ''•'itmi* in ' iiildreii. declares Dr Karl Pear-I.it, a. i'.e re-idl ol a simlv oi about £l)j)il boys and -Jll Ml ;;irl- in Kn;;j lish school-. Neither is health nor ihe j lack (.1 ii always or even i ic.picntly as-ociaied with vivacity. p polarity, or cou-cientioiisiie-s. Tkore .'.as found to be little relation between health an I 0.-lieial iiiteilieciice. Athletic prowess want with coed health, as did self-as-ertiveness : lull the old i.bm that delicate children tab*.-j In intellectual work, and arc particularly shy and n o-rii mimiwas not toidirmoil, ncr wa. the similar one that lively boys arc likely to ueulert studies for physical spurts. blondes Were toaml to lie slightly less Icalthy titan hrunettes. Dr Pearson's tv-nh-, ii i, assorted, j seem to sltatter v.idely In Id beliefs. ! They im'iiaic tint it i- not p.is-ibl • I fur load er- to modify j.s.Voial in t cl ii- j come or psychic character-, which socm to bo niiciiaiipod tPi , iiu,_-;li‘ itt the whole of '.eln.id life: that i;e>!a''ui heall.h c! atiae- little diiiili-.; tlie sciieni la l iod : ami that health i- not a p ,v-

ernitio factor of temperament. Health was found to be associated to only a sunlit extent with rptalities of eharnc ter, and with temper practically not at

[lrbies depend more on their heredity fo.;- t; uil health than upon what station of life they are born into or what care they pet, concludes l’rofcssor Pearson as the result of a similar statistical study of 10C0 babies from a laiee manufacturiiio town. The poor health of those not breast-fed is stated to be chiefly due to the inhetrita.nce of the weakened eonstittition of a mother i.ot able to nourish her child. Clothino is important, but it is not bipdily correlated with health, and it lieeoiiic.s less' important as the child jtro'.vs older.

Tile health of the father and mother is most important, and it is stated to have in: re to do with the health of the child than tlie washes of the father or the employment of the mother.