A Textbook of Hygiene for Training Colleges (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from A Textbook of Hygiene for Training Colleges<br><br>This book, which is chiefly the outcome of lectures given to my students, covers the subject-matter of the Board of Education Certificate Examination for Training Colleges, and will, I hope, be of use not only to College students, but also in connection with the work done in the new Continuation Classes and elsewhere.<br><br>I have included chapters on Eugenics, Infant Welfare and Legislation affecting Children - subjects which are of such interest and importance to the community that some study of them should be included in the education of all who have reached adolescence.<br><br>I have tried always to use simple words and to suggest practical applications of theoretical knowledge wherever possible - being fully convinced of the futility of Hygiene which is not practised. The teacher who settles down to give a lesson on cleanliness in a class-room covered with dust is probably doing more harm than good. The class had better first dust the room even though this be superficially suggestive of Mr. Squeers' methods of instruction.<br><br>I am indebted to various authors for information. As far as possible I have acknowledged my sources in the text, but I should like specially to mention here The Annual Reports of the Chief Medical Officer of the Board of Education (Sir G. Newman), Dr. Crowley's Hygiene of School Life, rewritten by Dr. Hutt, Dr. Kerr Love's The Deaf Child, Dr. J. Kerr's School Hygiene, Dr. Slaughter's The Adolescent, various articles in School Hygiene and the Journal of the Royal Sanitary Institute.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.