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continues, ‘“‘results in able-bodied men and women being 
carriers of bugs, fleas and lice either on their persons or on 
their garments or belongings. Immediately following this dis- 
horror inspired amongst those who were new to the Army by 
the blankets served out for the recruits to lie on, or to 
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provincial prisons by the first imprisoned suffragettes, who, as 
soon as they were released, spoke of the cockroaches, the bugs, 
and the lice tolerated in His Majesty’s gaols, all of them in 
condition of life. Those who dwell in high places know very 
little about the torture and suffering of the poor; they may 
strive to do many things for them, but they do not know how 
to bring health and happiness into the lives of the humble. In 
short, as Sir Harry Johnston says, “for the Next War as for 
that we are now waging against a human enemy of civilisation 
and happiness we must be equipped with a modern and essen- 
ially practical education.”” We may not all perhaps agree 
with Sir Harry when he suggests that “the whole curriculum 
of our schools wants overhauling and that instead of Euclid 
should be taught Entomology or the science of insects ; in 
of puzzling over Algebra boys and girls should be well-grounded 
