|
| FAIR--Indoor closet, poor condition--badly lighted and ventilated |
| location, fixture inclosed with wood risers, or poor flush. |
| |
| POOR--Yard closet--separate water-closet in individual compartment |
| in the yard. |
| |
| BAD--School sink--sewer-connected privy, having one continuous |
| vault beneath the row of individual toilet compartments. |
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The commission hoped "that the facts and opinions they have collected
will have some effect in allaying the apprehensions of those who, as it
appears, on insufficient grounds, have made up their minds that
progressive deterioration is to be found among people generally." In
regard to the facts which started the fear, the report says: (1) the
evidence adduced in the director general's memorandum was inadequate to
prove that physical deterioration had affected the classes referred to;
(2) no sufficient material (statistical or other) is at present
available to warrant any definite conclusions on the question of the
physique of the people by comparison with data obtained in past times.

[Illustration: THE BEST INHERITANCE IS A MOTHER WHO KNOWS HOW TO
KEEP HER BABY WELL]

The topics dealt with in the report refer to only a partial list of
conditions that need to be carefully studied before we can know what
environment heredity we are preparing for those who follow us:

I. AS TO BABIES

Training of mothers, provident societies and maternity funds,
feeding of infants, milk supply, milk depots, sterilization and
refrigeration of milk, effect of mother's employment upon infant
mortality, still births, cookery, hygiene and domestic economy,
public nurseries, creches.

II. AS TO CHILDREN

Anthropometric measurements, sickness and open spaces, medical
examination of school children, teeth, eyes, and ears, games and
exercises for school children, open spaces and gymnastic
apparatus, physical exercise for growing girls and growing boys,
clubs and cadet corps, feeding of elementary school children,
partial exemption from school, special schools for "retarded"
children, special magistrate for juvenile cases, juvenile smoking,