49J REPORT— 1902. 



Official References to the Possession of an Acquaintance with Ilyg 

 011 the part of Elementary Teachers. 



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(1) Article 101, Day School Code, 1901, requires managers and 

 teachers ' to satisfy the inspector that all reasonable care is taken in the 

 ordinary management of the school to bring up the children in habits of 

 punctuality, of good manners and language, of cleanliness and neatness, 

 and also to impress upon the children the importance of cheerful 

 obedience to duty, of consideration and resj^ect for others, and of honour 

 and truthfulness in word and act,' — but no special reference is made to 

 the formation of healthy habits as such. 



(2) Among ' Notes on Articles of the Code of 1901,' in the 'Revised 

 Instructions applicable to the Code of 1901,' the following appears under 

 Article 15, III. :— 



' Household management, including cookery, laundry work, and 

 practical housewifery, is recognised in the Code as a subject of instruction, 

 and a grant is made for it. As it is a wide subject requiring a thorough 

 knowledge, not only of the practical work of a house and its management, 

 but of elementary hygiene and physiology, it is necessary that the 

 teacher should be well grounded in these subjects.' — There is no suggestion 

 how she is to acquire this knowledge. 



3. In 'Specimen Scheme 6 for a Girls' School ' (Revised Instruction, 

 1901), lessons on air, ventilation and respiration, water, washing and 

 cleaning, food, drinks, and the management of health are included, and 

 presuppose capacity on the part of the teacher to give such instruction. 



4. Kim/s Scholarship Examination Syllabus. — Until December 1901 

 this included domestic economy for girls ; the regulations and syllabus for 

 1902 omit any reference to, or inclusion of, domestic economy, physiology, 

 or hygiene in the girls' studies. 



5. Regulations and Syllabus for Acting Teachers' Certificate Examina- 

 tion for 1903. — Subject 7, theory of teaching, B. (2), contains the following 

 dealt with theoretically : — ' School hygiene, ventilation, heating and 

 temperature, overcrowding, posture, play and games, cleaidiness and 

 appearance, signs of fatigue in children, influence of health on efficiency 

 of work, unhealthy children, common signs of depressed health, pallor, 

 wasting, ophthalmia, stunted growth, neglected children, underfeeding, 

 children requiring special attention, crippled children, mental deficiency, 

 real and apparent. Apparent deficiency due to malnutrition, irregular 

 attendance, errors of vision and deafness. Onset of acute diseases 

 requiting immediate removal — rashes, sickness, swellings, feverishness, 

 irritability, fits.' 



Subject 11 (for women acting teachers). Ceneral elementary science 

 offers candidates a choice of three subjects : — 



A. Physiography : — 



I. Elementary. 

 II, Advanced. 



B. Elementary biology : — 



(a) General. 

 (6) Plant life, 

 (c) Animal life. 



