8 1HK RELATIVE STRENGTH OF 



,t. int. I;. . oiulition "i treth. eyes, ears, n'e and throat 



of the school childn n, and an account of tin- home in ach case; 

 information i> pven a> to tin- drinking of the parents, cleanliness of 

 the home, morality "1 the parents, &C. 



For thi> splrmlid piece of research school teachers, doctors, and 

 workers belonging to the C.O.S. have combined; information has 

 been sought from many sources and infinite pains must have been 

 taken. It is a pleasure to work from such a report, but one longs at 

 the same time that the numbers wen ten times as great, and that 

 the C.O.S. might obtain a far larger band of workers who would 

 investigate in like manner the condition of fourteen thousand instead 

 of fourteen hundred school children well distributed over the whole 

 of Great Britain. The machinery now exists for the medical exami- 

 nation of school children, but from the point of view of the eugeni>t 

 it will be of comparatively little value for measuring the effects of 

 environment unless the children are followed into their homes, and 

 information is collected and recorded as has been done by the C.O.S. 

 in Edinburgh. 



II. A Record of Measurements &c. of children attending in 1905 

 the public schools in Glasgow, lent to us by the Scottish Education 

 Department. We have from this source information about 72,857 

 school children; among other facts recorded are the age, height and 

 weight of the children and the occupation of the father and employ- 

 ment of the mother. 



III. An account of the children in the special schools in Manchester, 

 kindly provided for us by Miss Dendy. Among other information the 

 health and intelligence of the brothers and sisters of the defective 

 children under consideration are given, and the extent of drinking and 

 the health of the parents. 



The main points to which we have turned our attention up to the 

 present time are: 



(1) The influence of the employment of mothers on the physique 

 of their children. 



(2) The influence of the occupation of the father on the physique 

 of the children. 



(3) The influence of drink in the parents on the height, weight, 

 general health and intelligence of the children. 



(4) The influence of overcrowding, bad economic condition of the 

 home, moral and physical condition of the parents on the intelligence, 

 eyesight, glands, and hearing of the children. 



