CANDID HEALTH EXPERT
LACK OF PROVISION FOR CHILDREN
POSITION IN BRITAIN Times Cable. LONDON, Sunday. Sir George Newman, chief medical officer to the Ministry of Health and Board of Education, has issued his annual report on the health of school children. In this he says proper provision for the nurture and education of at least 2,000,000 of England’s 3,000,000 children under the age of five does not exist. The lack of suitable arrangements for dealing with disease in children before their school years, says the report, is responsible for a great mass of preveutible disease which contravenes education, frustrates the expenditure on it, and sows the seeds of incapacitv in the adult population. It is fsalacious to suppose that If mental defectives are sterilised the effect will be to cut off the bulk of mental deficiency. The great majority of mentally deficient children are not directly the offspring of deficient parents. The ages below five are the most susceptible for the body and tho mind. Sir George describes the Scout movement as the greatest demonstration of practical education the world has ever seen.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 830, 26 November 1929, Page 9
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183CANDID HEALTH EXPERT Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 830, 26 November 1929, Page 9
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