BV J. B. HENDERSON, P'.I.C, XIX. 



Electrical Engineers promulgated such a scheme for 

 England, and calculated that electricity could be supplied 

 at one-eighth penny per unit. 



There are other forms of national waste which have 

 not yet received the serious attention of those who look 

 after the welfare of our nation. A few years ago, I heard 

 one of our educational authorities state that nearly two 

 years of a young man's life were practically wasted by 

 the overlapping of the State school, the Grammar School 

 and the Southern Universities. Fortunately that can no 

 longer be said, and the education of our youth is now in 

 the process of being made as nearly continuous as possible. 

 It is to be hoped that before long there will be no over, 

 lapping, and that a student will not require to reach first 

 year University standard in certain subjects ere entering 

 the University. 



The passing from the State School should qualify for 

 the High School, and passing from the High School should 

 qualify for the University, with no side-tracking of education 

 to coach the student to " pass an exam." That efficient 

 system of inspection, as opposed to examination, which 

 has succeeded so well in our Primary Schools, should 

 succeed quite as well in our Secondary Schools. If, in any 

 instance, it did not, the University would soon let the fact 

 be known. 



Possibly the saddest of all our wastes is that direct 

 waste of human life which could so easily, in many cases, be 

 avoided. In the case of adults phthisis and typhoid are 

 largely preventable, if watched by the individual and 

 fairly attacked by the community, while malaria, filaria and 

 other mosquito- borne diseases can easily be eradicated. 

 But of all the life losses, the most inexcusable and criminal 

 is that of infant life. Times without number the appalHng 

 statistics have been published, but with only a comparatively 

 slight lowering of the infantile death rate. It seems almost 

 impossible to drive home to those controlling the com- 

 munity, in any land, their criminal responsibility for per- 

 mitting the wholesale slaughter to go on. Much of the 

 waste of infant life is due to ignorance of the most elementary 

 facts of infant nutrition. I knew of a baby three weeks 

 old, the mother unable to suckle it, being fed with tapioca 

 made with water, and of several other cases almost as bad, 



