DISEASES OF INFANCY

Hokitika Guardian, 26 November 1929, Page 5

DISEASES OF INFANCY

ENGLAND’S PROBLEM.

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LONDON, Nov 21

“Proper provision for the nurture and -the education of at least two millions out of England’s three millions .of children- under the age of five years; does not exist,’’ declared Sir Geprge Newman, K.C.8., Chief Medical'Officer of’ the British Ministry of • Health), in the course of In’s annual report on the health of school clii!lven. .“The lack of suitable erialignments for dealing with disease before the School years is ' responsible for a igfeat mass of preventable disease which contravenes education, Jrustrates the expenditure thereon, and soWS' the seeds of incapacity in the adult population. It is fallacious to suppose that to sterilise mental defectives will cut off the bulk of the mental deficiency. The great nniu'.'ty of the mentally-deficient children are not directly the offspring of moritallv-uo-ficient parents. The ages I eiow five years are those that are iho most susceptible for the body and mind.” Sir George Newman describes the Scout movement as being “the greatest demonstration of practical education that the world has ever seen.”