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nie to travei'se them. Some of the recommendations of the 

 Committee do not api)ly to the Cape Division School Board, as 

 what they recommend is already part of its policy. 



Another movement which promises fruitful results is the 

 discussion of the problem of Child Life Protection. The Con- 

 ference which met in Capetown last March in connection with 

 the Capetown Society for the Protection of Child Life and the 

 Johannesburg' Children's Aid Society, proved how wide a field 

 lies before those who take an intelligent interest in the well- 

 being of the future citizen. 



Siich subjects as the relation of the municipal authority to 

 the protection of child life and the physical and moral aspects 

 of the education of children, including medical inspection of 

 schools, provision for the feeble-minded or " retarded " child- 

 ren, and the feeding of school children, are eminently subjects 

 that ought to be scientifically studied, for they involve problems 

 of psychology, physiology and biology. I do not intend to go 

 into this to-day further than to call the earnest attention of 

 this Associatic-"' •♦nd especially of Section D, to this matter. 



