Insanity and Alcoholism. 



Rippon Seymour, on the result of " The Royal 

 Commission on Physical Training in Scotland, 

 1902." It shows a most deplorable condition of 

 health among the children, mostly those attending 

 the Board Schools at Edinburgh, especially those 

 of the poorer districts. The alarming discovery 

 was made that 700 children were suffering from 

 "unrecognised phthisis/' 1,300 from " unrecog- 

 nised heart disease," 12,000 from " ear diseases," 

 15,000 from "lesser ailments." About one-third 

 of the children of Edinburgh were requiring im- 

 mediate medical attendance. 



This condition was generally ascribed to im- 

 proper feeding, and want of proper physical 

 training. 



I believe our children are being fed better than 

 they were ever fed before ; we must look beyond 

 the feeding, although that must not be neglected. 

 Give them better food by all means, but, at the 

 same time, let them have sound physiological 

 instruction. Let their parents also have some 

 physiological instruction they need it. 



It has been suggested that the children are 

 overworked, some of them are employed out of 

 school hours, and go to school exhausted and 

 unfit for instruction. 



Undoubtedly there are cases in which children 

 have to work out of school hours, for the 

 simple reason that their parents cannot afford to 

 feed them properly unless they do something to 

 bring in a little money. In many cases the re- 

 strictions imposed on parents make it very hard 

 for them. 



But to return to one's sheep, as the French 



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