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EXTKACTS FKOM RECENT LEGISLATION 



AFFECTING THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 



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STATE OF MINNESOTA. 



SECTION 1. That all school-officers in the State may introduce as part 

 of the daily exercises of each school in their jurisdiction, instruction in 

 the elements of social and moral science, including . . . self-denial, 

 health, purity, temperance, cleanliness. . . . 



STATE OF MICHIGAN. 



SECT. 15. The district board shall specify the studies to be pursued in the 

 schools of the district: Provided always. That provision shall be made for 

 instructing all pupils in every school in physiology and hygiene with 

 special reference to the effects of alcoholic drinks, stimulants, and nar- 

 cotics generally, upon the human system. 



STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. 



. . . And in physiology and hygiene, with special reference to the effects 

 of alcohpli<? drinks, stimulants, and narcotics upon the human system. 



'; ',/ , '</ ;&;z?k,T3 OF NEW YORK. 



Provision shal\ be r made by'th^ proper local school authorities for in- 

 str/Jctijii/j^l'^i^iJs 'fn; all; spools'; supported by public money, or under 

 State control, in' physioTo'g.v'rtn'd 'hygiene, with special reference to the 

 effects of alcoholic drinks, stimulants, and narcotics upon the human 



system. 



STATE OF OHIO. 



To the board of education the State has primarily intrusted the respon- 

 sibility of seeing that her teachers are grounded in all the dangers that 

 beset her youth, and that they are disposed to arm their youth with the 

 requisite knowledge, convictions, and resolution to guard against these 

 dangers. The effect of alcohol on the brain and nerves its innate ten- 

 dency, like all narcotic poisons, to enslave the appetite, and lead to excess 

 and ruin should be clearly made known to every youth while in school. 

 From notes explaining school-law. 



STATE OF VERMONT. 



. . . And elementary physiology and hygiene, which shall give special 

 prominence to the effects of stimulants and narcotics upon the human 

 system. . . . 



%* Several other States have passed similar laws. 



